
Two Hundredth 
Anniversary 

ofine 

Settlements/^ 
Haddonfield 
New Jersey 











o , V 



















^ov^ 



w^ 



e5>J*r. 



K-y^J ^^\''^J /\''W.° ^^K'^J /^\''^ 



.*^"''*.. 






.^""V 

































<»^.V^ 






The Two Hundredth Anniversary 

oj the 

Settlement of Haddonfield 
New Jersey 





The Two Hundredth Anniversary 

of the 

Settlement of Haddonfield 
New Jersey 



Celebrated October Eighteenth 
Nineteen Hundred and Thirteen 



Illustrated 



HADDQNFIELD 

PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 

1913 



.\^it' Hit' 



Copyright, 1914 
J. Linton Engle 



1000 Copies Printed by flljn ! 5 1914 

Franklin Printing Company 

Phxlacelphia ^ 

^ r * 



^CI.A3S00o5 




O S! 

O H 

D . 



O 
W 

H 



o 
o 

J 



FOREWORD 

At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Haddonfield 
Civic Association, held January 20, 1913, was read a letter from 
Samuel N. Rhoads, calling attention to the fact that, although 
Elizabeth Haddon had come to this vicinity in 1701, in the year 
1713 she had built and occupied her house within the present borough 
limits and this was properly the two hundredth anniversary year 
of the founding of Haddonfield. The letter suggested that a suitable 
celebration commemorative of the event be arranged. In response 
to this letter the President named Samuel N. Rhoads and James L. 
Pennypacker as a Committee to consider the subject proposed, with 
authority to invite general co-operation and to use such measures as 
seemed best suited to work out an effective celebration. 

Acting under the authority given, the members of the Committee 
invited Mrs. Ephraim T. Gill, President of the Haddon Fortnightly 
Club, to join them. Thus was formed an initiative committee of 
three persons. This Committee held several conferences and, late 
in the Summer, invited to a general meeting a number of citizens 
representing the many interests and organizations of the community. 
This general meeting was held at The Indian King, August 30th, 
and effected a general official organization as shown on page 6. 
From that time until the conclusion of the celebration the Official 
Organization held meetings Thursday evenings of each week and 
the various Committees met on intervening afternoons and evenings. 
The Program Committee took the initiative, deciding upon the 
general character and most of the specific events of the celebration, 
and the other Committees, each in its field, worked enthusiastically 
to see that all details were properly accomplished. The Program 
Committee assigned the morning exercises to the care of the Society 
of Friends and selected the orator, the poet and the writer of the 
words of the Cantata. The music of the Cantata was opened to 
competition. The patriotic societies, churches and certain in- 
dividuals were invited to assume directorship of tableaux or groups 
of tableaux and thus co-operation and speedy action were secured. 

Saturday, October eighteenth, was a cloudy day with sufficient 
threats of rain to hold the town in suspense. Fortunately the 
weather proved not unfavorable, except for lack of sunshine. _ 

Early in the morning a costumed Herald on a gaily caparisoned 
horse announced at every street crossing the opening of the celebra- 
tion. Flags were flying and the town was in gala array. Visitors 
came pouring in by train, trolley and automobile. Among the 



especially invited guests were officers of various patriotic societies 
and of State and County historical societies. At the morning 
exercises the Friends Meeting-house was overflowing. By noon 
visitors began to assemble in the seats on the lawn of Mr. Samuel 
Wood, the site of the permanent home of Elizabeth Haddon. Speedily 
the two thousand chairs provided were all filled and still the crowds 
came. More than four hundred automobiles were on the ground 
and a conservative estimate fixes the number of persons present at 
about six thousand. 

The afternoon ceremonies began promptly at 1.30 and the 
elaborate program was carried through with military precision. 
The promptness with which hundreds of persons were moved on 
and off the scene was remarkable. The tableaux were beautiful 
and historically impressive. The literary and musical features 
were original and interesting. 

An exhibition of historic objects in Artisan's Hall had been 
opened the previous day and remained open to visitors until Sunday 
evening. The collection of old furniture, chinaware, glassware, 
silver, ornaments, samplers, quilts, household utensils, manuscripts 
and books could scarcely be duplicated in any other community of 
like size in the country. Crowds visited the exhibition and attended 
the public reception held Saturday evening in the hall. A meeting 
of the Official Organization, held Thursday evening, October 23d, 
passed upon the receipts and expenditures of the celebration and 
discovered a good balance in the treasury. It was determined that 
the ultimate use of this balance should be decided only after mature 
deliberation. 

Meanwhile it was ordered that there be published a complete 
record of the celebration, and a Committee was appointed to prepare 
and preserve such a record in printed book form, fully illustrated. 
One thousand copies of this book have now been published and are 
ofifered herewith to the citizens of Haddonfield and their friends. 
This book is a record of the celebration and in no sense a complete 
history of Haddonfield. As a guide to persons who desire further 
information about Haddonfield a carefully prepared bibliography 
concludes the volume. 



Julia B. Gill 
Samuel N. Rhoads 
J. Linton Engle 
George J. Bergen 
James L. Pennypacker 

Chairman 



Committee 

on 
Publication. 




ii 



OFFICIAL PROGRAM 



The Two Hundredth 
Anniversary 

of the 

Settlement of 

Haddonfield 

New Jersey 



October Eighteenth 

Nineteen Hundred 

and Thirteen 



And Elizabeth answered with confident voice, and serenely 
Looking into his face with her innocent eyes as she answered, 
"Surely the hand of the Lord is in it; His Spirit hath led thee 
Out of the darkness and storm to the light and peace of my fireside." 

— /fenry W. Longfellow 



H AD D ONFIELD 

17 13 - 19 13 



PRICE, 10 CENTS [Pages S lo 20 are a reproduction o/lhe Omdal Program] 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 



Organization 

JAMES L. PENNYPACKER, General Chairman 
SAMUEL N. RHOADS, General Secretary 



PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
Thomas S. Hopkins, Chairman 



Mrs. Ephraim T. Gill 
Mrs. James L. Pennypacker 
Frank L. Fithian 



Edwin J. Dewey 
C. Ernest Dechant 
F. Morse Archer 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
Samuel N. Rhoads, Chairman 



Ephraim T. Gill 
Robert T. Wood 



Samuel Wood 
Henry D. Moore 
Walter H. Babcock 



S. Abbott Willits 
Clarence J. Hunter 



FINANCE COMMITTEE 
Americus R. Underdown, Chairman 



William R. Boggs 



Charles H. Hillman 
George B. Glover 
Bayard C. Stavely 



EXHIBITS COMMITTEE 
Mrs. John Gill Willits, Chairman 



Dr. John R. Stevenson 
Peter V. Bergen 
Rebecca Nicholson 



Mrs. J. Linton Engle 
Mrs. Richard M. Cooper 
Grace Bacon 



Sarah Nicholson 



PUBLICITY COMMITTEE 
J. Linton Engle, Chairman 

Mrs. Benjamin F. Whitecar H. D. Maydole 
Miss Mary Kay 



Charles R. Bacon 

Dr. W. C. Petherbridge 



RECEPTION COMMITTEE 

Mrs. John W. Wescott, Chairman 
Mrs. Charles R. Bacon, Vice Chairman 



Mrs. Wm. D. Sherrerd Mrs. 

Mrs. L. J. Stone Mrs. 

Mrs. Samuel Wood Mrs. 

Mrs. S. C. A. Clement Mrs. 

Mrs. Gerald Hopkins Mrs. 

Mrs. S. Abbott Willits Mrs. 

Mrs. William C. Wood Mrs. 
Mrs. Henry S. Scovel 



John Danenhower Miss 

Herbert D. Shivers Miss 

Frank Taylor Miss 

Frank C. Somers Miss 

Arthur Y. McNeill Miss 

Horace Ebert Miss 

Nalbro F. Thomson Miss 
Miss 



Emma Middleton 
Mary D. Bergen 
Mary Buzby 
Rebecca Glover 
Amelia Jennings 
Alice Bell 
Minnie Jennings 
Annie Dunbarr 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



Order of Events 



MORNING 
Herald's Announcement. Harold B. Atkinson 



10 o'clock. Friends Meeting House and Grounds 

I. HISTORICAL PAPER. " Colonial Beginnings of Haddon- 
field Monthly Meeting of Friends, 1721-1762 " 

Anna H. Barton 

II. HISTORICAL PAPER. " Incidents in the Life of Eliza- 
beth Haddon," .... Harriet O. Redman Willits 

III. POEM. "Elizabeth Haddon," Rebecca Nicholson Taylor 

IV. UNVEILING OF BRONZE TABLET TO THE MEM- 

ORY OF ELIZABETH HADDON. 

By Elizabeth Haddon Glover 

This Tablet is erected by the great nieces and nephews of the Sixth, 
Seventh, and Eighth generations. 

AFTERNOON 

1 o'clock. Homestead of Samuel Wood 

EPHRAIM T. GILL, Presiding 

Preliminary Music — Third Regiment Band of Camden, N. J. 



The great Courage and Zeal of our ivorthy Friends "d:ho first received the truth in this latter age 
of the world hath been often brought to my view.— JOHN ESTAUGH, Haddonfield, 1742. 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 



1.30 o'clock 



I. SCRIPTURE READING 



II. OCTOBER IN HADDONFIELD. Chorus of School 
Children. Mrs. Florence E. Reed, Director 



III. PAGEANT PICTURES. Group One. Under direction of 
the Haddon Fortnightly Club 

1. THE INSPIRATION OF HADDONFIELD. 

The scene shows the home of John and Elizabeth Haddon in London 
in 1691. William Penn is making a visit there. He describes scenes in 
America and shows two ears of Indian Corn. The daughter Elizabeth, 
aged ten years, is thrilled by the story of the new strange land and the 
Indians. 

Characters: EHzabeth, age 10, (Elizabeth Gill); WiUiam Penn (John H. 
Lippincott, Jr.); Penn's Secretary (Louis L. Allen); John Haddon 
(George J. Bergen); Elizabeth, his wife (Mrs. Nelson Cooke); Grand- 
mother Haddon (Mrs. Horace Ebert) ; Sarah, sister of Elizabeth (Eliza- 
beth S. Bacon); Attendants (Charles G. Alexander, Rachel Jones). 

2. THE ARRIVAL OF ELIZABETH AT THE SITE OF THE 

FUTURE HADDONFIELD. 

In 1701, Elizabeth Haddon, at the age of twenty, came to settle upon her 
father's lands in West Jersey. The scene shows her welcomed by the 
family of Francis Collins whose daughter Sarah became her intimate 
friend. The Collins home had been built in 1682, on land now included 
in Haddonfield. Elizabeth came to live at the Haddonfield site in 1713. 

Characters: Elizabeth, age 20 (Naomi Fithian); Francis Collins (Dr. 
F. H. Tomlin) ; Mrs. Francis Collins (Miss Sarah Collings) ; Children of 



Since it is the will of the Almighty it becomes me to submit, tho' it be hard to do so. — ELIZA BE TH 
ESTAUGH, Haddonfield, 1743. 

8 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



first wife (represented by Francis F. Collings, Mary Buzby, Elizabeth 
Remington, Gertrude Bergen, Helen Moore, Mary Tatem) ; Children of 
second wife (represented by G. Burling Jarrett, Jack Hopkins, Gertrude 
Borton, Kendall Hopkins); Wife of oldest son (Beulah C. Wilson); 
Attendants of Elizabeth, Joseph (Samuel S. Perkins); "Hannah, the 
housemaid" (Mrs. Samuel N. Rhoads). 

3. THE PROPOSAL. 

This scene, as described in Longfellow's Elizabeth, shows the horseback 
group on the forest path and the proposal of marriage. 

Characters: Elizabeth, age 21, (Mary D. Bergen); John Estaugh (Robert 
T. Moore); Friends on horseback (Henry D. Moore, Mrs. William D. 
Sherrerd, Langdon Gill, Mary Buzby, Nelson Cooke, Jr., Breta Long, 
Isabel Fithian, Anna Clement, Ethel Stevenson, John Moore, Ezra Bell). 

4. DISPENSING MEDICINE TO THE INDIANS. 

Characters: Elizabeth, age 30, (Mrs. Ephraim T. Gill); John Estaugh 
(William J. Amos) ; Hannah (Mrs. Samuel N. Rhoads) ; Joseph (Samuel 

5. Perkins) ; Neighbor and child (Mrs. Francis Tomlin and Son) ; Squaw 
and Papoose (Mrs. Walter Dawson and Baby Ruth Dawson); Indians 
(Kaddonfield Order of Red Men, and Hazel Jordan, Evan Rhoads, Wallace 
Super, Merritt Curran, Everett Curran, Granville Gardner, Henry D. 
Moore, 2d, William Amos, William Sherrerd, Alvan Brown, Elizabeth 
Dickinson) . 

5. A QUAKER TEA PARTY IN 1789. 

Characters: Hostess (Mary Redman); Guests (Mesdames Francis D. 
Weaver, Horace Ebert, J. Linton Engle, Elwood Evans, Lewis E. Graff, 
James Macaulay, Robert T. Moore, Trafton Tredick, Thomas Wilson, 
Misses Minnie Jennings, Beulah C. Wilson, Anna L. Coolidge, Elizabeth 
Remington, Emily Macaulay, Marian Nicholson, Messrs. John Gill 
Willits, J. Roberts Jarrett, George E. Fredericks, Samuel S. Perkins, J. 
Linton Engle, Francis F. Collings.) 



IV. HISTORICAL ADDRESS, . . . Rev. Frank A. Smith 



Happy this tract of rich productive soil 

No more, the dwelling place of savage race 
Where golden harvests crmon the peasant's toil 

And cheerful plenty gladdens ev'ry face. 

NATHANIEL EVANS, Haddonfield, 1765. 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 
V. POEM. " Haddonfield," . . . James L. Pennypacker 
VI. A MERRY LIFE, .... Chorus of School Children 
VII. PAGEANT PICTURES. Group Two 

DIVISION ONE 

Under direction of the Haddonfield Chapter Daughters of the American 
Revolution. Elizabeth Semans Ford, Chairman of Committee. 

6. THE ADOPTION OF THE STATE SEAL. 

The Great Seal of the State of New Jersey was designed by Du Simitiere. 
The Committee appointed by the First Assembly of the State of New Jersey 
made report to the Legislature then in Session in the Indian King at 
Haddonfield May, 1777, on the design and character of the Seal and it 
was received by the Assembly. 

Characters: Governor William Livingston (Francis F. Collings) ; Members 
of the Assembly (Edward Catlett, Charles Henry, Lewis King Shinn, 
Robert Moore, Henry D. Moore, 2d, John Moore, Lawrence Bechtel, 
Stanley Bechtel, Joseph Tatem, Loring Thomson, Norman Hollingshead, 
John Reeve.) 

7. SARAH COLLINS SAVING THE HAM FROM HESSIAN MA- 

RAUDERS. 

Scene: The Old Hinchman Homestead. 

Characters: Sarah Collins (Miss Sarah Collings) ; Hessians (The Boys' 
Brigade.) 

8. THE MILES SAGE EPISODE. 

In the winter of 1777, Miles Sage a vidette from the regiment of Col. 
Joseph Ellis rode at night into a group of British infantry gathered before 



Atid it was in the first watch of the night, when they landed; and they passed along the Highway 
that kad;th from the town of Gloucester to the field of Haddon.— RICHARD S NO WD EN, Haddon- 
field, 1793. 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



the old tavern then on Tanner Street. He spurred his horse from their 
midst and went flying up the Kings Highway, closely pursued. In front 
of the Indian King his horse fell wounded. In a moment the pursuers 
were upon him and he was bayonetted and left for dead. He was however, 
carried into a neighboring house and nursed back to health. 



Characters: Miles Sage (Charles Wright); Troops, (The Boys' Brigade.) 



9. COUNT DONOP BIDDING FAREWELL TO JOHN GILL. 

The night before the battle of Red Bank, on the Delaware, Count Donop, 
with 1200 Hessians was quartered in Haddonfield. Count Donop slept 
at the house of John Gill on the Kings Highway. On the morning of 
the battle, October 22, 1777, the brilliant officer and the plain friend 
parted with many differences of view, but with mutual respect. In the 
battle the Count was mortally wounded. 

Characters: Count Donop (Henry Sherrerd); John Gill (John Gill, 
6th); Troops (The Boys' Brigade.) 



10. THE DOLLY MADISON RECEPTION. 

"Dolly" Madison was the niece of Hugh Creighton, owner and landlord 
of The Indian King during the Revolutionary period and thereafter. 
As a young widow, Dorothy Payne Todd, before her marriage to James 
Madison, she made frequent visits to her uncle in Haddonfield. The 
legend goes that the days she spent here were gay with balls and other 
entertainments . 



Characters: "Dolly Madison" (Mrs. William D. Sherrerd); Hugh 
Creighton (I. Warner Hunt) ; Marquis de la Fayette (William G. Moore) ; 
General Anthony Wayne (William R. McC. Long); Colonel Joseph Ellis 
(John H. Lippincott, Jr.) ; John Gill (John Gill, 6th) ; Ladies (Members of 
the Haddonfield Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution.) 



Vivacity is a thing of itself that sits not ill on anybody, least of all on a youth ; and youth is a 
season when even a degree of volatility is not only to be sometimes expected but is not among the un- 
pardonable faults.— STEPHEAT MUNSON DA Y, Haddonfield, 1803. 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 



DIVISION TWO 

Under direction of the Haddonfield Chapter Daughters of the War of 
1812. 

11. WELCOME TO CAPTAIN JAMES B. COOPER UPON HIS 

RETURN FROM THE WAR. 

Captain James B. Cooper, a citizen of Haddonfield, was a trooper with 
Light Horse Harry Lee in the Revolutionary war and was a veteran of 
the war of 1812 and of the Mexican War. In the war of 1812 he was a 
Lieutenant in the Navy and was placed in command of gunboats cruising 
along the Jersey Coast. 

Characters: Captain Cooper (Emerson Doughty); Mrs. Cooper (Mrs. 
Samuel Wood); Daughters (Mrs. Robert Bradshaw, Mrs. Walter H. 
Smith.) 

12. CAPTAIN COOPER AT HIS WORK BENCH. 

Captain Cooper died February 5, 1854, in his 93d year. For many 
years previous to his death he lived on the Kings Highway under the famous 
buttonwood trees. He had a beautiful old-fashioned garden with curving 
beds and box bordered walks. And there he set up quaint bird houses 
and other samples of ingeniously wrought woodwork in the making of 
which he pleasantly passed his latter days. The toy Church used in 
the picture is one of his make and is owned by Mr. Samuel Wood. 

Characters: (As above.) 

Note : At the conclusion of the scenes the Haddonfield Chapter Daughters 
of 1812 will sing the Star Spangled Banner, which was a product of that 
war. Color bearer, Mrs. A. H. Riddell. Chorus, Mesdames William 
R. Boggs, Robert A. Irving, Benjamin F. Whitecar, A. Henry Doughty, 
Edward M. Reilly, William D. Sherrerd, Samuel Curran, Robert Curran, 
C. Ernest Dechant, Robert W. Tait, Newman M. Cole, Misses Anna 
Dunbarr, Mary Browning, Mary Call. The volunteer Fife and Drum 
Corps is from the Boys' Brigade. Earl Marcus, leader. 



There stands in niins hastening to decay 
The lonely mill where yet I love to stray. 

JOHN E. REDMAN, Haddonfield, 1830. 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



VIII. CANTATA. 

Words by Grace F. Pennypacker. Music by Joseph W. 
Pennypacker. Sung by a Haddonfield Chorus of 100 
Voices. Curtis Hartel, Director. Accompanied by Boss- 
ier's Third Regiment Band. 



IX. PAGEANT PICTURES. Group Three. 

DIVISION ONE 
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES. 

13. THE FRIENDS MEETING, (1721). THE DEEDING OF ONE 

ACRE OF GROUND FOR THE FIRST MEETING HOUSE. 

Under direction of Miss Marian C. Nicholson. 

This event occurred at the House of John Haddon by the "Cherry Garden" 
on the Thames, Southwark, London, January 1721. 

Characters : John Haddon (George J. Bergen) , John Estaugh (William J. 
Amos), Elizabeth Estaugh (Mrs. Ephraim T. Gill), Sarah Hopkins (Mrs. 
Elwood Evans), Sarah Dimsdale nee Collins (Mrs. Samuel N. Rhoads) ; 
Attorney (Leslie Gardner). 

14. THE BAPTIST CHURCH (1818). THE ADOPTION OF 

PLANS FOR THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. 

Under direction of Americus R. Underdown, Jr. 

In 1817, Mrs. Lettice Evans, becoming very anxious about the religious 
training of her children called a committee to devise means for religious 
services. As a result of this meeting Rev. John Sisty was chosen to 
preach in the Grove School House. These meetings were continued on 
the second and fourth Sabbaths of each month until June 11, 1818, when 
a regular Baptist Church was constituted. Its constituents were Charles 
Kain, Isaac Cole, Samuel Vanhorn, John Fairlamb, Hannah Clement, 
Maria Hillman, Sarah Kain, Ann Kain, Elizabeth Vanderveer and Kitturah 



The moral and intellectual growth of a people is a source of wealth. — JAMES S. L/PPI.VCOTT, 
Haddonfield, 1863. 

13 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 



Rowan. The scene as portrayed represents them submitting plans for 
the erection of their own Church building, which was opened for services 
the Fifth Lord's day of November, 1818. Its dimensions were 35x40 feet. 

Characters: Rev. John Sisty (Stephen Baxindine) ; Charles Kain (Horace 
Mann Ebert); Isaac Cole (Howard L. Braddock); Samuel Vanhorn 
(Jesse P. Curl) ; John Fairlamb (Americus R. Underdown, Jr.) ; Lettice 
Evans (Virginia C. Garrett); Hannah Clement (Edith Clement); Maria 
Hillman (Martha Dewey); Sarah Kain (Rebecca Glover); Ann Kain 
(Lillian E. Doughty) ; Elizabeth Vanderveer (Elizabeth Ellis) ; Kitturah 
Rowan (May Willard); Mrs. Horace Ebert, Mrs. Samuel Wood, Mrs. 
May P. Curl, Misses Ernestine Loos, Bessie Dickerson, Persis Henszey; 
Masters A. R. Underdown, 3d, William Atkinson. 

15. THE METHODIST CHURCH (1829): THE METHODIST 

CIRCUIT RIDER BY THE WAYSIDE. 

Under direction of Mrs. L. J. Stone. 

In 1772 Francis Asbury preached in charge of the Philadelphia Circuit 
and made regular trips through New Jersey from Trenton to Salem. 
The first meetings were held in houses or barns. The Methodist Church 
was established in Haddonfield in the Old Grove Schoolhouse. The 
first Church building was erected in 1835. In the scene is shown the 
Circuit Rider meeting and counseling a family and greeting a group of 
wayside children. 

Characters: The Circuit Rider (George Watson); Members of family 
(Walter Rainier, Anna Rainier, Earl Rainier) ; Neighbors (Jennie Thorn, 
Anna Thorn, Clara Thorn). Group of Girls (Sarah Hill, Daisy Hill, 
Julia Wood, Adelaide Lackey, Gertrude Davis.) 

16. THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH (1842):— THE MARRIAGE RITE 

IN 1842. 

Under direction of Mrs. Wilson H. Jenkins. 

The Episcopal Church was established in 1842, and the first building was 
consecrated September 29, 1842, by Bishop Doane. The first wardens 
and vestrymen were Charles D. Hendry, Thomas Ashburner, Josiah E. 
Coles, John White, J. B. Fennimore, Benjamin M. Roberts, George Lee, 
William Starn and J. Fewsmith. 



If we cannot emblazon the names on the scroll of fame, let us render them the tribute of this passing 
notice even though they rest in unmarked graves'. — JiEV. Gb'STAVUS M. MURJiAi, Haddon- 
field, 1876. 



14 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



Characters: Clergyman (William C. Marshall); Bride (Eleanor Reilly); 
Groom (Allison Eyster) ; Mother of the Bride (Mrs. Hosea E. Doughty) ; 
Father of the Bride (Edgar Cuthbert); Bridesmaids (Misses Meriam 
Shinn, Eleanor Blaker, Victoria Kebler, Gertrude Walkley); Grooms- 
men (Randall Abel, R. Irons, Percy Wolverton, John Downing) ; Guests 
(Misses Blanche Shivers, Janet Reeve, Elizabeth Graff, Katherine Swan, 
Elizabeth Gallagher, Riche Jenkins, Ruth Flitcraft, Ruth Magoun, 
Harriet Magoun, Margaret Wencher, J. Haddon Hopkins, Bowman 
Shivers, Robert Carter, Herbert Shivers, Roland Reed, Walter Moore, 
Arthur Stewart, Allison Curtis.) 

17. THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (1871):— A PROCESSION 
SHOWING THE BEGINNINGS AND GROWTH OF THE 
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN HADDONFIELD. 

Under direction of Samuel S. Perkins. 

The first organization was effected November 21, 1871. The first pastor 
was Edwin D. Newberry. And the first elders were Joseph B. Tatem 
and David Roe. 

ORDER OF THE PROCESSION 

Eight Covenanters: (Charles Z. Vaughan, Walter C. Bossert, Ralph 
W. Pressey, Leslie Gardner, Rodger Fowler, Lawrence Bechtel, Robert 
T. Moore, Henry Read Perkins.) 

Representatives of the Organization of the Church. Mr. and Mrs. 
Henry D. Moore, William Henry, Samuel S. Perkins, William S. Long, 
Robert W. Tait, Walter S. Pope, James Macaulay; Mesdames Rachael 
A. Thomas, Marie L. Humburg, F. Otto Muller; A. Franklin Wayne, 
William Brice, Misses Grace D. Sherrerd, Francis B. Riddell. 

Representing Members of West Jersey Presbytery. Rev. William 
Allen, Jr., Harry C. Smith, John S. Smallzell, William G. Moore, A. Brad- 
dock Rogers, Eben S. Mathis. 

The Laying of the Comer Stone. Rev. William Allen, Jr., Walter 
S. Pope, James Macaulay, Walter Dawson, Nelson H. Cooke, J. Edward 
Fell, J. Fithian Tatem. 

A Banner inscribed with the name of the Church and date of organiza- 
tion. Borne by Augustus H. Riddell, Jr., Alfred R. Driscoll, Jr., Alfred 
Sweeten, Arthur Sitley. 

Forty -two girls representing the years of the Church's existence. 



Hail quiet Haddonfield! All peaceful thou! 
Bathed in the vernal sun or crowned with snow, 
Age leaves no furrows on thy favored brow, 
Though age was thine a hundred years ago. 

REV. E. H. STOKES, Haddonfield, 1876 

15 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 



18. THE WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION:— 
REPRODUCTION OF THE UNVEILING OF THE FOUN- 
TAIN DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF ELIZABETH 
HADDON. 

Under direction of Mrs. Wellington Bechtel. 

This fountain stands upon the Kings Highway in the centre of the town. 
Participants: Elizabeth Glover, Frances B. Hopkins, Elizabeth Cook, 
John Estaugh Hopkins, J. Redman Engle, and forty young girls. 



DIVISION TWO 
THE EARLY SCHOOLS OF HADDONFIELD 
Under direction of Miss Emma Middleton. 

19. THE FRIENDS SCHOOL. 

The School building on Haddon Avenue was erected in 1786. At first 
there was a Common School. Before 1800 it passed into the hands of the 
Friends. 

Characters: Schoolmaster (Charles R. Bacon); Schoolmistress (Sarah 
F. Collings) ; Pupils (Walter Rulon, Edward Clement, James A. Penny- 
packer, George Loos, Merritt Curran, Robert Haines, Samuel Hunt, 
Thomas Stavely, J. Burling Jarrett, John Estaugh Hopkins, John Haddon, 
Anna M. Pennypacker, Sarah Clark, Alfreta Anderson, Edith Stafford, 
Sylvia Murphy, Mary Eisele, AHce Rowand, Charlotte Kelly, Marjory 
Garrett, Hannah Stokes, Catherine Herman, Mary Davis, Anna Shivers, 
Anna Thorn, Helen Wright, Helen Sweeton.) 

20. OLD GROVE SCHOOL AT NOON TIME. 

Characters: Schoolmaster (Horace Ebert); Pupils (Elizabeth Tomlin, 
Mildred Heath, Catharine Davis, Sarah Beck, Ruth Hunt, Florence 
Ellis, Marian Middleton, Elizabeth Gass, Ruth Paul, Helen Hunt, Helen 
Griffith, Leona Hill, Howard Middleton, Newbem Fowler, Earl Sutvan, 
Lowell Hippie, Helen Dewey, Henry Beck, John Elliott.) 



Here may be found those relics of by-gone days that have escaped the too often vandal hand of 
progress.— HON. JOHN CLEMENT, Haddonfield, 1877. 

16 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 

DIVISION THREE 
Under direction of Mr. William H. S. Alexander. 

21. THE HADDONFIELD FIRE COMPANY IN THE OLDEN 

DAYS. 

The Haddonfield Fire Company, established in 1764, has been in continued 
existence to the present time. The minutes of all their business meetings 
from the beginning have been carefully preserved. Their silk parade 
banner shows a painting of the Elizabeth Haddon Home, which was 
destroyed by fire in 1842. 

Characters: (Chief Bayard C. Stavely and Members of the Company.) 

22. FOUNDING OF THE HADDONFIELD LIBRARY. 

On March 5, 1803, nineteen leading citizens of Haddonfield and vicinity 
met at four o'clock on a Saturday afternoon in the Friends' School House 
(still a Schoolhouse) and organized The Haddonfield Library Company. 
This Company still maintains its organization and has rendered continuous 
educational service to the community. 

Characters: First President, Thomas Redman (Thomas Redman); 
Secretary, Stephen Munson Day (Edwin G. Nottingham) ; First Librarian, 
John Clement (Edward Clement); Trustees, Andrew Caldwell (William 
T. Clement), William Estaugh Hopkins (J. Haddon Hopkins), John Gill 
(John Gill, 6th), Judge James Hopkins (J. Fithian Tatem), Benjamin 
Morgan (J. Roberts Jarrett), James Hurley (Charles G. Alexander), 
Joseph Griffith (Frank F. Taylor), John Roberts (Emerson Doughty), 
Joseph C. Swett (Edward T. Catlett.) 

23. THE OLD HADDONFIELD POTTERY. 

The Pottery was established by George Thomson in 1805. It has been 
in continued existence until the present and is now owned by the Win- 
gender Bros. 

Characters represented by Charles Wingender, Mrs. Charles Wingender, 
Mrs. William Wingender, and several employees. 



Hail to the fathers of our ancient town! 
They little thought their deeds ivould bring renown. 
They wished to benefit, and with this view. 
They wisely built, and better than they knew. 

JOHN E. REDMAN, Haddonfield, 1905. 

17 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 



24. GOING TO THE MILL. 

The first grist mill within the present Borough line was erected in 1696. 
A deed of 1727 designates "John Kay of the grist mill." 

Characters: The Miller (George Eisele); The Farmer's Boy (John Gill, 
7th.) 

25. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. 

From the first settlement the blacksmith has been an important factor in 
the community. 

Characters: The Blacksmith (Edward Berry); The Farmer's Boy 
(John Gill, 7th.) 

DIRECTORS OF THE PAGEANT.— Edwin J. Dewey, Joseph W. Pennypacker, S. Abbott 
Willits, Harold Furness. 

PAGES FOR PAGEANT SCENES. — Donald Sherrerd, Winfield Downs, Leslie Gardner, 
Wallace Super, Roger Fowler, Charles Sulliffe, Clinton Wilhelm, John Downing, Franklin Bacon, 
James Young, Edward Williams, Alan Ebert. 

ARTISTS FOR PAGEANT CHARACTERS.— Frank L. Fithian, Emlen McConnell, Mrs. 
J. Roberts Jarrett, Edith Clement, Lillian Doughty, Miss Hough. 

X. ALLEGORICAL PICTURE. 

Under direction of Mr. William H. S. Alexander and Miss 
Mary D. Bergen. 

Characters: Haddonfield (Miss Edith Gardiner); Air (Frances Catlett); 
Sunshine (Althea Niblo); Trees (Hazel Zimmermann); Flowers (Helen 
Dobbs); Birds (Adele Zimmermann); Music (Edith Clement); Art 
(Madeline McFadden) ; Literature (Lillian McFadden) ; Health (Harriet 
Magoun) ; Happiness (Ruth Magoun.) 



XI. AMERICA . . Chorus of School Children and Audience 



XII. FINALE. 

Grand Processional Pageant from the Grounds by the 
various Local Organizations and Associations. Bayard 
C. Stavely, Chief Marshal. 



i8 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 

EVENING 

EIGHT O'CLOCK— ARTISAN'S HALL 

Kings Highway and Grove Street 

GENERAL PUBLIC RECEPTION 

INFORMAL MUSICAL PROGRAM 

Vocalists 

MRS. MARY WERNER-LAWRENCE 

MRS. ELIZABETH G. FLAIG 

MR. J. HADDON HOPKINS 

'Cello Solo 
MISS GRACE GRAFF 



Accompanists 

MRS. JAMES H. EYSTER 
MRS. ALBION BUCKMAN 

The Indian King, the historic old Tavern on the Kings Highway is open to 
visitors day and evening. 



Exhibition of historic furniture, china, books, papers, 
clothing, etc. in the lower room of Artisan's Hall. Richard 
Elwell, Sentry. 



NOTE. — By the courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wood and of Mr. Americus R. Underdown 
the Wood Homestead and Artisan's Hall have been freely offered for all purposes of this celebration. 

19 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



MORNING EXERCISES 
Friends' Meeting House and Grounds 



COLONIAL BEGINNINGS 
OF HADDONFIELD MONTHLY MEETING OF FRIENDS, 

1721 1762. 

By Anna H. Barton. 

The early history of Haddonfield Monthly Meeting is so closely intervoven 
with the story of a little group of Friends on the banks of Newton Creek, that we 
are compelled to begin our narrative nearly forty years before the first meeting- 
house appeared in Haddonfield. 

In the autumn of 1681, a little company of Friends from Ireland had come 
to Salem, where they sojourned for the winter. The following spring, having 
searched up and down that portion of West New Jersey adjacent to the Delaware 
River and lying between Pensauken and Timber Creeks, which had been reserved 
for the proprietors dwelling in Ireland, they, in the language of Thomas Sharp, 
"at last pitched down by yt which is now called Newton Creek as ye most 
invitingist place to settle down by." "At which time also Robert Zane who 
came from the city of Dublin and had been settled in Salem four years before 
joined in with us." Robert Zane had already married an Indian maiden in 
Burlington Meeting, and on account of his familiarity with the country he was 
apparently the guide for the rest of the company in selecting a site for their 
future homes. Thomas Sharp, Mark Newbie, William Bates, Thomas Thackera, 
George Goldsmith, with the families of some of these men and Robert Zane 
from Salem made up the little colony. Thomas Sharp, in his own words, gives 
the "impulse that drove them across the seas." He says, "Let it be remembered, 
it having wrought upon ye minds of some friends that dwelt in Ireland, but 
such as formerly came thither from England; and a pressure having laid upon 
them for some years, which they could not gett from the weights of until they 
gave upp to leave their friends and relations there, together with a comfortable 
subsistence, to transport themselves and family into this wilderness part of 
America, and thereby expose themselves to difficulties, which, if they could 
have been easy where they were, in all probability might never have been met 
with." 

The sincerity of their motive is shown by the additional statement, "And 
immediately there was a meeting sett up at the house of Mark Newbie, and in 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 

a short time it grew and increased." As we further read, his words ring out a 
prophetic message through the centuries which should fall on attentive ears 
to-day. He says, "And that the rising generation may consider that the settle- 
ment of this country was directed upon an impulse by the spirits of God's people, 
not so much for their care and tranquility, but rather for the posterity yt should 
be after and that the wilderness being planted with good seed might grow and 
increase to the satisfaction of the good husbandman." 

Mark Newbie's house, where was held the first meeting, was on the north 
side of Newton Creek, probably near the old burial ground at what is now West 
Collingswood, but a little further down the stream. It was the spring of 1682 
when this little gathering of perhaps twenty persons, probably in a house of 
logs, with floor of earth and roof of bark, met, after the simple ways of Friends, 
for the purpose of worshipping in Spirit and in Truth according to the dicatates 
of their own conscience. 

Only two other meetings had been established in West New Jersey, Salem 
in 1675 and Burlington three years later. 

Here in this rude cabin on Newton's bank, while Elizabeth Haddon was a 
toddling infant and before William Penn had landed in Philadelphia, was laid 
the foundation of Haddonfield Monthly Meeting, and the first Friends' Meeting 
in Gloucester County, which then included the present Camden County. Two 
years later, Newton Friends built their first meeting-house. It too was made of 
logs, and Sharp says it was erected at the west end of the burial ground. It 
would seem a second house must have been built on or near the site of the old 
log meeting-house on Newton Creek as one was burned there early in the last 
century, but we are unable to find a record of it. The present Newton meeting- 
house in Camden, with which we are more or less familiar, was built about 
1801. 

It is recorded that in 1685, through the permission of Burlington Friends, 
a meeting was established at the house of John Kay in connection with a 
similar meeting to be held at Pensauken on alternate First Days for the better 
accommodation of Friends in Evesham and about Pensauken and Cooper's 
Creeks. According to Clement's "First Settlers' in Newton Township," John 
Kay's house was located on a tract of land now part of a farm formerly be- 
longing to Joseph W. Cooper's estate, lying on the Marlton Pike, about one mile 
east of Ellisburg and running back to the north branch of Cooper's Creek. 
This meeting appears to have been held there about twenty-two years. It 
was not until twenty-five years later that this same John Kay bought the tract 
of land on which now stands Evans's Mill, and removed there, so it is quite evident 
that this indulged meeting was held at the home nearest the present Marlton 
Pike. 

The "Evesham Friends," as they were called, included William and Eliza- 
beth Evans, who at one time lived in a cave near Mt. Laurel. Elizabeth was 
a minister and doubtless spoke at this meeting. 

The first Monthly Meeting was held at Newton in the autumn of 1682, and 
later for the better accommodation of Friends alternately at Newton and at 
Thomas Shackle's house, which stood on the farm now the home of Wilmer 

22 
















t-^trt,-! 














MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE OF HHIX 



]l)J^-> 






> 



*ir 



V- . 
i 



^^<5l^!""'^' 



!,''«-$ 

^ 









(Xfy^ 



\ 



,2? 



V i . 







^..4r 



1 






:p^ <m* 



A 



Lrr; c . 



cJljlfciAi^ J^ijyy^ - 



AUGH AND ELIZABETH HADDON 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 

Collins, north-west of the Haddonfield and Moorestown road, about one mile 
from Ellisburg. 

Very early in the next century, Elizabeth Haddon's strong personality made 
itself felt in the circle of Friends that from time to time assembled at Newton, 
at the Shackle's home and possibly at John Kay's. Still in her early twenties, 
she was, in 1705, clerk of the Women's Monthly Meeting, a position she held 
for more than fifty-five years, except when interrupted by her visits to England. 
These records stand to-day a safe model in neatness and accuracy for all her 
successors. When John Estaugh came from England on a religious visit to 
America, the certificate furnished him by Friends there contains this expression, 
"We do believe he is Qualified for ye Service ye Lord hath called him Unto 
and we have unity with him. And so wee desire you to receive him." Appar- 
ently Friends did receive him. About two years later, his marriage to Elizabeth 
Haddon is recorded. 

A copy of their marriage certificate may be of interest: 

"Whereas John Estaugh and Elizabeth Haddon of the Province of West 
New Jersey & County of Gloucester: both single persons (the said Elizabeth 
being daughter of John Haddon of London in the Kingdom of England) having 
several times declared' their Intentions of taking each other in Marriage to 
Husband and Wife at the Monthly Meetings of Newton, to which they belong, 
according to Truth's order, and the said meeting having received satisfaction 
concerning their clearness both by due and orderly enquiry made here and also 
by Certificates from Friends in England, as also the consent of their parents 
being had, so that the said meetings have given their free assent and concurrence 
therewith and thereunto. — 

These therefore may Certifie that upon the 1st day of the tenth month in 
the year One thousand Seven hundred & two, at a publick meeting at the house 
of the said Elizabeth, appointed & held on purpose for the full accomplishing & 
solemnizing of the said Marriage, they the said John & Elizabeth openly & sol- 
emly in the presence of the said meeting, did take each other in marriage to 
husband & wife the said John solemly promising in these words (viz) Friends 
and neighbors, in the Presence of God and you his people, whom I desire to be 
my witnesses, I take this my friend Elizabeth Haddon to be my wife, promising 
through the Lord's Assistance to be unto her a loving husband till the Lord by 
death shall seperate us. And the said Elizabeth declaring as followeth, ffriends, 
In the fear of the Lord & before you his people, whom I desire to be my witnesses, 
I take this my friend John Estaugh to be my husband, promising through the 
Lord's assistance to be unto him a faithful and loving wife untill the Lord by 
death shall seperate us. In testimony whereof the said John and Elizabeth 
have hereunto set their hands the day and 3'ear abovesaid. 

JOHN ESTAUGH 
ELIZABETH HADDON." 

Then follow the names of witnesses. 

Notice that she wrote her name Elizabeth Haddon, though on all later 
dates she uses the surname Estaugh. 

The population of Haddonfield increased, the roads were bad, the distance 

23 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 

to Newton considerable and after several years it was decided that a meeting 
house was absolutely necessary, so ;£'ioi, los were subscribed to erect a building, 
although £,\2 additional were raised the next year. The specifications according 
to the minutes call for a building "forty foot long, 25 foot wide, 12 foot posts, 
shingled on ye outside. Galleries at each end 10 foot one, 12 foot ye other." 
It was "to be lined back high with board and lathed and plastered the other 
part." It was probably completed in a few months. At Newton in the Eleventh 
Month, the meeting adjourned to the new Meeting-House near John Kay's 
Mill. The next record begins "At a Monthly Meeting held at our new Meeting 
House at Haddonfield, in ye township of Newton, in Gloucester County in 
Province of New Jersey ye 12th day of ye 12th Month, 1721." This is the first 
time the name Haddonfield is given to the meeting and for ninety-seven years 
the Friends Meeting House was the only place of worship in Haddonfield. 

With business-like sagacity Elizabeth Estaugh had journeyed to her father's 
home in England and obtained his signature to a deed for the carefully surveyed 
meeting-house lot, which was duly placed on record. 

Shortly before the death of Elizabeth Estaugh a brick house was built on 
the same site and the old structure was moved to the opposite side of the road 
and used as a shelter for horses. This brick meeting-house remained in use 
until 1852 when the present building was erected on land purchased for the 
purpose. 

At one time First-day meetings were held alternately at Haddonfield and 
Newton. In 1728, they were "parted to be single at each house from first of 
Tenth to last of First Month." The next year it was decided for four months 
to hold meetings at Haddonfield on First Day as well as on weekdays, while 
"at the request of Friends about the riverside Newton Meeting was to be held 
at the school house near Joseph Cooper's and after that according to their former 
and usual manner." 

In colonial days the real or apparent difference between the usual crowd of 
voters and a gathering of worshippers must have been less than now, for both 
Haddonfield and Newton Meeting Houses were used for election purposes. 
After the school-house was built at Haddonfield in 1786 it was used for elections 
and town-meetings instead of the meeting house Why should this shock our 
modern ideas of propriety? Surely, the man (or woman) who exercises the 
privilege of the franchise need not stand on any lower plane in manners or 
morals than those who gather in religious assemblies. 

As we glance through the quaintly worded records of these old meetings, 
interesting glimpses are revealed of the religious life of the members, the loving 
care and concern for individuals, as well as occasional happenings somewhat at 
variance with modern ways. 

When Mary Gill, wife of John Gill, received her first payment for the care 
of the new meeting-house it was less than ^^i per year, gradually advancing for 
nearly seventeen years to £2,- Apparently the increased cost of living began 
more than two centuries ago! A little further we read that Ebenezer Hopkins, 
by order of Men Friends is to be paid ;^5,4s that he had advanced for one year's 
board of Sarah Heritage, a poor Friend. A modest sum for the purpose but 

24 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 

placed on public record without regard to the feelings of the Friend in necessitous 
circumstances. 

At a later date Benjamin Hopkins informs the meeting that he desires their 
advice in reference to the removal of his family to Ohio. A joint committee 
has a conference with the family and reports that they found nothing to dis- 
courage their removal. 

Sometimes, the care of the meeting was manifested in reproof, as in the case 
of a woman Friend, at one time clerk, but, departing from Friendly ways, a 
testimony of disownment was issued against her, stating that "She had had the 
advantage of a Religious Education beyond many. But for want of Living in 
subjection to the cross of Christ, her mind became Leavened into the spirit of 
Liberties of the World and estranged from her friends. Slighting their tender 
advice and admonitions, as also that of an affectionate and an afflicted Mother 
untill by Degrees her conduct and conversation became a contradiction to her 
Profession, and after long forbearance and much tender labor to convince her 
of her great deviation and thinking no prospect of service in further treating 
with her, in order that friends may not be chargeable with her conduct, it 
becomes necessary to declare 'That for some time past it hath been such as we 
cannot have unity with and having thereby Disunited herself. She is not in 
Religious fellowship with us until she shall manifest a self denial more consis- 
tent with the principles in which she was Educated and give friends the necessary 
satisfaction, which that she may through Divine favor Happily Experience is 
our Earnest and sincere Desire.' " 

Let us not imagine that in the far-away past men were any more or any less 
fair in their dealings with each other than now. A minute records that James 
Whitall complains that Joseph Collins won't "pay ^4 ten sh. for work done." 
The meeting directs Joseph Collins to pay before next Monthly Meeting, or 
James Whitall is "Left to his Liberty." Joseph Collins heeds the Meetings' 
decision and the next month records the payment of the debt. 

Frequently the minutes mention visits from ministers from Great Britain 
or elsewhere with comments on the same. Catherine Payton encourages them 
"to keep strict discipline in church and family," while John Fothergill in his 
writings says of his first visit to Newtown (as then called) "Truth appeared in 
mercy and good will, to revive and build up a weak and staggering people." 

Yet a record of about this time (1721) indicates that these early Friends 
were not deceived by a form of Godliness without the substance. It states that 
"John Lawson, a preaching Friend from South Britain having preached several 
times in the Newton Monthly Meeting limits, and not producing a certificate 
from England as requested, a long letter is recorded on the Monthly Meeting 
minutes, which was ordered sent him. In this he is reminded of the London 
Epistle of 1720, warning American Meetings of Cheats and Counterfeit Ministers" 
and that the only remedy for such was proper Certificates from their home 
meetings. He is therefore requested to "be Silent untill friends are better 
Perswaded Concerning thee." That this was a reasonable request is shown by 
later minutes of the Yearly and Quarterly Meetings when a paper was received 
from English Friends regarding Lawson, of whom it is related that he "by his 

25 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 

fine Words and fair Speeches Did sometimes Deceive Simple Spirits And a Sower 
of Discord Amongst friends." 

Ministering Friends who from time to time dwelt within the limits of 
Haddonfield, traveled, with the approval of their meeting, by slow and laborious 
routes, as messengers of the Gospel to New England, to the north or the south 
and sometimes westward or across the seas. One certificate issued for John 
Estaugh when about to make a religious visit to foreign lands says his meeting 
"found his Conversation agreeable to his Testimony." A worthy tribute indeed! 
It was while on a religious visit to the West Indies that his death occurred. 
Just here it may be noted that in the minutes of Women's Monthly Meeting, 
carefully kept by his wife, appears a blank page between the entries of loth 
Month 1742, and nth Month of the same year. Outside records show that 
between these two meetings she received word of his death and burial at Tortola. 
Apparently this blank page was left to show the condition of her heart and 
mind when she began to copy the minutes of nth Month. A fitting emblem of 
her grief and love! 

Hannah Cooper was a contemporary of the Estaughs; Sarah Cresson, 
Richard Jordan, Elizabeth Redman, and Mary Swett were ministers of later 
date, while names unspoken but of equal lustre, rise at memory's bidding as 
we look upon these present galleries. 

As evidence of the limited education of the masses, including Friends, even 
in the time of Elizabeth Estaugh, we find that on many of the marriage certificates 
of that period, the bride and groom frequently make their mark instead of a 
signature, especially the bride, and among the witnesses the names of men far 
outnumber those of women. The Friends of Haddonfield were not indifTerent 
to these needs, and made provision for schools even before the building of the 
school house to which reference has been made. But a generation or two must 
grow up before the full results of an educational movement are apparent. This 
condition of more or less illiteracy among the masses must be borne in mind, 
even while we recognize the marked ability of those who were leaders intellectually 
as well as spiritually. This minute of 1724 illustrates the point: 

"John Haines signifies that Amariah Ballinger hath been guilty of sundry 
offenses against the church : To wit — inquiring of a conning man how his Goose 
came to Dye (To-day the intelligent Poultryman applies to the State Experiment 
Station for such information) and allowing Fiddling in his house, and shooting 
for a Wager, which charges said Amariah being present acknowledged, etc." 

Which was the greater of the three offenses is left to our imagination, but we 
suspect it was the last one named. However, no further mention is made of 
Amariah until a year or so later when he and Elizabeth Garwood passed meeting 
the first and second time for marriage, without any charge being presented 
against him. 

A few years after the new meeting-house was established at Haddonfield, 
Friends at Egg Harbor and Cape May requested a Monthly Meeting established 
among them, while those at Racoon Creek in Greenwich Township asked to 
have meetings for worship on First-days. A subordinate meeting had also been 
set up at \\'oodbury Creek. Chester Meeting (now Moorestown) and Evesham 

26 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 

(now Mt. Laurel) on various occasions presented requests as to the time of 
holding their meetings. These facts show how large a territory came under the 
oversight of Haddonfield Friends. 

Ten years after the new meeting house was built, it was thought necessary 
to make an addition to it, although a minute a year or two previous mentions 
a small attendance "by Reason of the Mortality and Indisposition of the People." 
A few rods from here on Haddon Avenue, near the Town Hall is the old site 
of the building. Picture the little meeting-house of logs or shingles, unpainted, 
unadorned, in a small clearing among the tall trees of the primeval forest. Near 
it, in a rudely fenced enclosure lie the unmarked graves of the friends and re- 
latives of those who toiled to make the wilderness blossom, but faithfully 
gathered each week, or oftener, to worship in reverent silence unless perchance 
the spoken message fell from gifted lips. From scattered homes they came, 
no rumbling wheels, no chugging motor or clanging trolley broke the stillness, 
only the sound of footsteps or of hoof-beats through the wooded paths. 

In the words of Whittier we say: 

"Clasp, Angel of the backward look 
And folded wings of ashen gray 
And voice of echoes far away, 
The brazen covers of thy book; 
Where, closely mingling, pale and glow 
The characters of joy and woe, 
The monographs of outlived years; 
Even while I look, I can but heed 
The restless sands' incessant fall, 
Importunate hours that hours succeed, 
I Each clamorous with its own sharp need, 

And duty keeping pace with all. 
Shut down and clasp the heavy lids; 
I hear again the voice that bids 
The dreamer leave his dream midway 
For larger hopes and graver fears: 
Life greatens in these later years, 
The century's aloe flowers to-day." 




27 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 



INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH HADDON 

By Harriet O. Redman Willits. 

Elizabeth Haddon left no diary, so we too are obliged to be pioneers and to 
blaze again the forest trails, this time through the pages of books, a few old 
letters, note books and Meeting records, from which we piece together a story, 
full of youth and romance and religious zeal. 

Elizabeth's father, John Haddon, was a blacksmith, who extended his 
trade to the making of anchors. The first five or six years of Elizabeth's life 
were spent on Jacob Street in a place called Southwark, on the south bank of 
the Thames, opposite London and near her father's shop. 

Some of the story-and-a-half houses in that locality yet stand as they did 
two hundred years ago, on partially reclaimed land, the roofs protected from 
storm and time, by sturdy English tile and decorated with chimney pots. Three 
little children, a boy and two girls, were sacrificed to the unhealthy locality in 
which they lived. As his trade increased, John Haddon moved farther down 
the River to RedrifTe Parish into what was then almost open country, and here 
Elizabeth's sister, Sarah, was born. A six-story grain mill, alive with modern 
machinery, now occupies the spot where this later home stood and gives its name 
to the street and its commercial tone to the spot from which once flowed kindly 
English hospitality. 

Horselydown Friends Meeting-house was within a half-mile of this new 
home. John Haddon and his wife were married in this Meeting and here 
Elizabeth worshipped until she left London for America. John Haddon lived 
in the times of the persecution of Friends and suffered with others from the 
tyranny of those in authority. The records of Horselydown Meeting give 
many little glimpses of the struggles with the King's soldiers in carrying out his 
orders against Dissenter's Meeting-houses, also some of the uses to which 
meeting-houses were put. In one note, dated 1671, after the destruction of 
the Meeting-house by the troops, we read: "Ordered that Will Shewen doe goe 
to the artillery house and demand the timber and pay reasonable satisfaction 
for the buying of it, or to let them have it;" which displays wonderful forbear- 
ance and forgiveness, according to our modern standards. 

Another interesting record is in regard to the care of the Aleeting-house 
under date of 1672; "Ordered that Thomas Parker have the key of the Meeting- 
house door, and that he clean the house, set the forms to rights, open and shut 
the casements and windows from time to time, and that he have all the keys 
and that if any of the neighborhood do come to have leave to dry their clothes 
that one have it one day, a nother another, and not two in one day for fear of 
incommancys," a curious word, which may be translated "inconveniences." 

Childhood was not so treasured then as now; children were early initiated 
into the rudiments of learning so that by the age of six Elizabeth had probably 
begun her substantial education. She was also actively interested in her mother's 

2S 



N ^5* '1" ^^ 





FURNITURE OF ELIZABETH HADDON 

(Now owned by Sarah and Rebecca Nichnlsnn') 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 

charities, as well as in the tales her father had to tell of the ports his honest 
anchors visited. For as she grew older, she went on modest little charitable 
ventures of her own. On one occasion, so the story goes, she asked her mother 
to let her have a party, and when the guests arrived, they were six tattered 
youthful beggars of the most forlorn London type, who did full justice to the 
cakes and fruit. When Elizabeth was about six years old, her father brought 
home Friends to tea from the afternoon Meeting. One of them was a stranger, 
William Penn, who told them wonderful tales of his new Colony in America 
and of the green country town, Philadelphia. This impressed the little girl, 
following, as it did, a discussion of the more sombre troubles the Friends were 
having, and colored the rest of her childhood play until Indian dolls and moccasins 
were laid aside for the more serious tasks her mature taste selected. 

John Haddon was not one of the first to become interested in the new Colony 
in America, but in 1698 he bought a plantation of five hundred acres in what was 
termed "West Jersey" from a Friend named Willis, who, in turn, had purchased 
it a few years before from William Penn. There is no record to show his motive 
for the purchase, but from that time Elizabeth's absorbing purpose was the settle- 
ment of a home in the new country. A few years before this exchange of good 
English coin and sheepskin, a new proselyte to Quakerism, John Estaugh, 
appeared at the Yearly Meeting in London town, and attracted some attention 
with his preaching. Afterward he was John Haddon's guest at dinner, and, 
though Elizabeth, now about fourteen, was too young to appear at the table, they 
must have talked together. There is no other record of their seeing one another 
in England. 

In the spring of 1701, Elizabeth's desire was gratified and she too sailed 
down the Thames in one of the little two-masted ships used at that time, on her 
long voyage to the land of her dreams.. The voyage, after weeks on the water, 
was safely accomplished, and she landed in Philadelphia, where some of the 
settlers were still living in caves by the riverside. Here she visited some friends, 
following this sojourn by a visit to other friends at Mountwell and Burlington. 

She was about twenty when she arrived in this country to assume the care 
of her father's possessions, — an almost perfect type of the English Quakeress 
of that period, generously educated at school as well as in her own home, where 
she had been trained in domestic affairs and in the judicious bestowing of 
charity and where she had intercourse with the best Friends of the time, "a 
citizen in the making," prepared to take up the responsibilities and hardships of 
her new life and to follow with delight the star of her chosen destiny. No one, 
however respectfully he may pry into Elizabeth's motives, can help thinking 
that her love for John Estaugh weighed equally in the balance with her desire to 
carry Christianity to the Indians and succor to the new Colony. Her devotion 
to him gives a touch of perpetual youth to her story. 

After resting with her friends, she went to her new home on Cooper's Creek. 

The following is a quotation from a manuscript loaned by one of Eliza- 
beth Haddon's kinsmen of the present day: 

"Almost opposite the place where William Penn had made his Peace Treaty 
with the Indian kings, there emptied a large creek into the Delaware; the 

29 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 

English named it Cooper's Creek, after William Cooper, the Quaker emigrant, 
who owned three hundred acres at the mouth of the stream. This is the place 
now called Cooper's Point. Up this long, winding Creek was the humble 
little log house which had been refitted by her father's orders for the new-comer. 
As the crow flies it was about five miles from the mouth of the Creek, but by 
the Creek, the easiest way to travel in those days, it was nearly twice as far. 
No wagon road reached this lonely home of hers, only an Indian trail along which 
it was hard even to ride on horseback. It stood on high ground, some 150 yards 
from the water, in a clearing of the forest of pine and oak that stretched away on 
all sides.' Her house and purse were both large and her hospitality soon became 
famous and as her residence was on the way to Newton Meeting, it was a stopping 
place for Friends from all parts of the country. Hither John Estaugh travelled 
on his way from a religious visit with a certain John Richardson in Virginia. 

Some modern chroniclers have it that John Estaugh was rather awkward 
in his love-making; however, it is a tradition in the Gill family, one closely 
associated by ties of blood with Elizabeth Haddon, that the young minister, 
observing the prosperity of the Haddons in England, was depressed by the 
comparative humbleness of his own fortune and hesitated to make any advances. 
Fortunately for romance and for us he could not disguise his feeling for Elizabeth, 
and she, surmising the cause of his halting courtship, with her habitual directness 
made the actual proposal easy, when he arrived in this country. Perhaps for 
a moment we may indulge in historical inaccuracy and quote from " The 
Theologian's Tale" of Longfellow: — 

Then Elizabeth said, though still with a certain reluctance. 

As if impelled to reveal a secret she fain would have guarded, 

"I will no longer conceal what is laid upon me to tell thee, 

I have received from the Lord a charge to love thee, John Estaugh." 

And John Estaugh made answer, surprised by the word she had spoken 

"Pleasant to me are thy converse, thy ways, thy meekness and spirit. 

Pleasant thy frankness of speech, and thy soul's immaculate whiteness, 

Love without dissimulation a holy and inward adorning. 

But I have yet no light to lead me, no voice to direct me. 

When the Lord's work is done and the toil and the labor completed 

He hath appointed to me, I will gather into the stillness 

Of my own heart awhile and listen and wait for His guidance." 

Then Elizabeth said, not troubled or wounded in spirit, 

"So is it best, John Estaugh. We will not speak of it further. 

It hath been laid upon me to tell thee this, for tomorrow 

Thou art going away, across the sea and I know not 

When I shall see thee more, but if the Lord hath decreed it 

Thou wilt return again to seek me here and to find me." 

And they rode onward in silence and entered the town with the others. 

30 




C "^ 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 

They were married in her own home in the Tenth Month, 1702, in the pres- 
ence of a Committee of Friends and a few guests, including some Indians whose 
calmness matched the serenity of their Quaker brethren. 

Soon after this John Estaugh became John Haddon's business agent in 
this country, assuming the management of his property here, which had increased 
by extensive purchases. 

Elizabeth and her husband made three visits to England, for Elizabeth, 
we gather, at times was homesick for London sounds and scenes and neither 
pirates at sea nor land-company duties in New Jersey nor gentle admonitions 
from her father, could dissuade her from making the perilous journey. 

John Haddon and his wife never came to this country though their plans 
to sail at one time developed so far that a " copper furnace " was made to 
be taken across the seas as a protection from our winters. 

As the country became more thickly settled, a new site for a home was chosen 
and twelve years after their marriage a two-story brick house was built, within 
the limits of the present borough of Haddonfield. It is thus described by a 
person who resided there in the year 1830: — 

"The front door opened into a large hall with a fireplace at one end orna- 
mented with tile, on each side of which was a cupboard with glass doors. The 
small parlor had a marble mantel and hearth and opened into the garden by a 
glass door and another with Venetian blinds. An entry back of the hall had a 
spiral starcase leading from it. At one end of this entry was a bedroom and the 
other a kitchen, with a room back of it. In the cellar was a large fireplace and 
dresser and a vault under the kitchen four or five steps deeper." 

Fire destroyed this house in 1842. In the garden the yew trees brought 
from England still remain, silent spectators of changing times and scenes. 

John Estaugh had some knowledge of medicine and he and his wife were 
famous for their skill in nursing and healing. He also travelled in the ministry 
and wrote some tracts, one of which was published by Benjamin Franklin after 
John Estaugh's death in 1742 in the Island of Tortola. 

Their hospitality was unlimited, in connection with which Elizabeth's 
cheerful disposition, discretion and charity were a noteworthy feature. 

Having no children of their own, Elizabeth adopted as her heir, Ebenezer 
Hopkins, a son of her sister, Sarah (Haddon) Hopkins. He is the Ancestor of 
the present Hopkins family. Elizabeth lived to be eighty-two years old, surviving 
her husband twenty years. She retained to the last, control of her affairs, and 
guided those dependent upon her by advice and assistance. John Estaugh died 
while on a religious visit to the West Indies with John Cadwalader of Phila- 
delphia. 

No act in Elizabeth Estaugh's life displayed more of her business ability 
than her will, in which is shown a masterly knowledge of her estate both real 
and personal. 

This is the framework of Elizabeth Haddon's life, from which poet and 
historian have drawn inspiration and which they have adorned with the colors 
of their fancy. Each investigator must be impressed with the determination 
and wonderful perseverance of one who at an early age selected her path and 

31 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 

never deviated from it. Few annals provide such an incentive to reasonable 
men and women to do the simple things well, to meet difficulties, stand up 
under responsibilities and to get the best results from their chosen task. 

Year after year the cherished mahogany and china, associated with Eliza- 
beth Haddon, appear to increase! We name our blue-eyed children with 
English roses glowing in their cheeks, Elizabeth, but does her spirit go marching 
on? Are we pioneers? Does her life give us the example to dare, to blaze new 
trails and to push forward to the accomplishment of high tasks and lofty ideals? 

"Others I doubt not, if not we. 
The issue of our toils shall see; 
And (they forgotten and unknown) 
Young children gather as their own 
The harvest that the dead had sown." 



32 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



ELIZABETH HADDON. 

An Original Poem 

By Rebecca Nicholson Taylor. 

How well to turn aside to-day, 
To cease our going to and fro, 
To put our busy cares away, 
And take a look at long ago. 

Across two centuries of years, 
We backward gaze with eager eyes; 
A vision from the Past appears, 
We see a gracious form arise. 

So young, so brave, so true a maid ; 
Within her soul the call was clear; 
Upon her slender shoulders laid 
A burden that a man might fear. 

How wide the sea that she must sail! 
The last farewells, how hard to say! 
How rough the waves! the ship how frail! 
How long and weary was the way! 

To. the rude wilderness she brought 
The gentleness of woman's ways. 
The tenderness of woman's thought, 
A woman's heart of prayer and praise. 

Twofold the aim of her desire, 
A home in a far distant land. 
With love and peace beside the fire. 
And at the door a welcome hand. 

And she would build a house of prayer. 
For worship, silent, pure and free. 
With men and women equal there. 
To speak the word or bend the knee. 

So, turning from a life of ease. 

To her hard task she set her hand ; 

Beneath the virgin forest trees 

She built her house, surveyed her land. 

33 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 



To dwell alone is far from good. 
She had a heart, as maidens may. 
Her love came riding through the wood, 
And soon there was a wedding day. 

Regardless of their selfish needs, 
The two, true lovers sought to find 
A comradeship of noble deeds, 
A loving service to mankind. 

And, day by day, their hearts reached out 

In love to all the countryside. 

And faithfully they went about. 

To comfort, nurture, teach and guide. 

The years pass on. Her hair is gray. 
Her faithful toil its harvest yields. 
Where once the savage sought his prey. 
Outspread her wide and fertile fields. 

A meeting-house upon her land, 
The walls of brick, the beams of oak, 
She saw beside the highway stand, 
Well filled with quiet Quaker folk. 

She had those sorrows all must find, 
Her lonely years of age and loss, 
But sweet of spirit, calm of mind. 
She did her work and bore her cross. 

And those of us who now may come 
To rest in these fair fields of hers, 
Reverence the maker of a home. 
And one of God's own ministers. 



34 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



ADDRESS AT THE UNVEILING OF THE TABLET TO THE 
MEMORY OF ELIZABETH HADDON* 

By Samuel Nicholson Rhoads. 

[The brass tablet to Elizabeth Haddon's memory, with its setting of gray 
marble, had been fastened to the old buttonwood tree nearest the wall along 
Haddon Avenue, a spot nearly opposite to and distant about 20 feet from her 
grave. A platform had been erected between the tree and the wall and suitably 
decorated with branches of oak and cedar. The tablet was veiled by an old 
silk shawl of finest texture worn by two generations of the Hopkins family of 
Haddonfield and at least 100 years old. 

Having ascended the platform with Miss Elizabeth Haddon Glover, one 
of the many great-nieces of the Foundress of Haddonfield, Samuel N. Rhoads 
called the assembly to order, and, after a few brief remarks stating the object 
of the occasion, requested Miss Glover to unveil the tablet, which was gracefully 
done, the audience maintaining a respectful silence most fitting to the nature 
of the occasion. By this time there were probably 500 persons in the audience, 
of whom about two-thirds were assembled on Haddon Avenue, completely 
blocking the trolley service for a short time.] 

"Friends and Neighbors and Invited Guests! 

We have gathered here on an occasion quite unique in the annals of American 
Colonization! 

We are here not merely to honor publicly the memor>- of a noted woman. 
We are here to dedicate an enduring memorial to the only woman, so far as I 
can discover, who came to America single-handed, as it were, to take possession 
of and settle upon a Colonial Plantation in her own right. 

Over 180 years ago Elizabeth Estaugh, in company with her worthy and 
dearly beloved husband, John Estaugh, visited London and secured from her 
father, John Haddon, the acre and more of land which forms the Haddon Avenue 
frontage of these grounds. Her object was to provide for a Friends Meeting 
House and Burial Lot to accommodate the growing needs of her co-religionists, 
who then formed probably more than two-thirds of the population of these parts 
of Old Gloucester County. 

Elizabeth Estaugh was Clerk of the Women's Meeting at this place from 
its beginning, in 1721, until her death, a period of over fifty years. If no other 
proof could be had of her remarkable character, the old Minute Book of the 
Meeting, continously kept by her during that long period, is alone sufficient. 
It now exists, and in fine preservation, in this Borough. Near the middle of 



*After the exercises at the Friends' MeetingHouse, Lake St. and Friends Ave., the entire audience, 
■numbering about 400 persons, adjourned to that part of the ancient burying ground nearest the Town 
Hall, the site of the original Friends' Meeting House. 

35 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 

this book occurs a blank leaf, the unspoken, unwritten tribute of Elizabeth to 
the memory of her beloved John Estaugh, whose untimely death in the West 
Indies occurred at that time, indicating the blank which his removal had made, 
not only in her own life, but also in that of Haddonfield Monthly Meeting. 

As many in this company cannot see the inscription of the Tablet I will 
read it for you. It says: — 

IN MEMORY OF 

ELIZABETH HADDON 

DAUGHTER OF JOHN HADDON OF LONDON 

WIFE OF JOHN ESTAUGH 

SHE WAS 

FOUNDER AND PROPRIETOR 

OF HADDONFIELD, N. J. 
BORN 1680 EMIGRATED 1701 

MARRIED 1702 DIED 1762 

BURIED NEAR THIS TABLET. 

ORIGINATOR OF THE FRIENDS MEETING 

HERE ESTABLISHED IN 1721. 

A WOMAN REMARKABLE FOR 

RESOLUTION, PRUDENCE, CHARITY. 

Many have inquired for the exact spot of Elizabeth Estaugh's grave. 
Owing to the loss of an old map, once in the possession of my grandfather, 
Samuel Nicholson, giving the location of the more noteworthy graves in the 
original portion of the grounds, it cannot now be pointed out. However, there 
are Friends now living whose parents and grandparents have indicated that the 
place of burial, which was never marked by a stone, was near the back gate at 
the northwest end of the old Meeting House and within 20 or 30 feet of the 
buttonwood trees beneath which we are now standing. 

In conclusion, let me say, that, on behalf of the great-nephews and great- 
nieces of Elizabeth Estaugh, now living, and with the approval and sanction 
of Haddonfield Friends, this memorial is now placed. It is placed, not only in 
a spirit of reverence for a noble personality, but that all who pass this way may 
read and know of one whose character and achievements are so worthy of 
emulation." 



36 



IN MEMORY OF 

DAUGHTER OF JOHN HADDON OF LOmOK 
WIFE OF JOHN ESTAUGH 

SHE WAS 

FOUNDER ANDPRopRinOR 

OFHADDONFIELDNJ 

BORN 1680 EMIGRATED 1701 

MARRIED 1702 DIED 1762 

BURIED NEAR THIS TABLET 

ORIGINATOR ofthe FRIENDS MEETING 

HERE ESTABLISHED IN 1721. 

AWOMAN REMARKABLE FOR 

^ES0LUT10N.PRUDENCE, CHARITY. 




PiHll(J(_;R.\Pn OF MF.MORI.M. TABLET 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 

AFTERNOON EXERCISES 
Homestead of Samuel Wood 



SCRIPTURE READING 

By Samuel N. Rhoads. 

"And he stood and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, 
saying, 

Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according 
to all that he promised : there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, 
which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant. 

The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave 
us, nor forsake us: 

That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to 
keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded 

our fathers." (/ Kings VIII; 1s.s6.57.3S.) 



OCTOBER IN H.\DDONFIELD 

(Air "Loch Lomond.") 

As waves of the sea the land run to meet. 

On the sand each tossing its foam crown. 

So the gold maples cast their treasure on the street 

In Haddonfield, our own little home town. 

Chorus: 

Now you'll take the high road and I'll take the low road- 

The world we will roam up and roam down ; 

But ever with the love that shall lead us to return 

To Haddonfield, our own little home town. 

As in wood by the pond is hoarded winter store 
By the squirrel, a queer little gnome brown, 
So memories we'll keep of the happy days of yore 
In Haddonfield, our own little home town. 

Chorus: 

Now you'll take the high road, (etc., as above.) 

G. F. P. 

37 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 

B}' Frank Austin Smith. 

It is an honor and a privilege of no small meaning to be here today. This 
great company of people, these glad songs from many voices, the community 
life united to interpret the past, all proclaim an interest and a love of unusual 
depth and sincerity. For two hundred years the tide of human life has ebbed 
and flowed in this place. We feel the influence of this past in our homes, our 
community institutions, our churches and our schools, so that our best instincts 
lead us to seek some means whereby we may express our appreciation. The 
deeds of these bygone days have passed into the book of the years. The page 
on which they are written is ineflfaceable, and no human words can increase their 
worth, no failure to do justice rob them of their value. Their adversities and 
privations have secured a fair country, their examples of frugal and simple living 
have preserved a fine democracy, their faith has kept our homes and our streets 
free from moral pestilence, their names live on grateful lips, and their memory is 
enshrined in their children's hearts. 

It is not alone for the sake of the past but rather for the present that we are 
met together. We come not in boasting pride nor self complacent egotism, but 
in humility and in reverence. We are here to listen rather than to speak, to mark 
paths by which we have been led, to commune with the storied past, and to 
declare to our children that honor can come out of simple beginnings and con- 
tentment is above great riches. This is the meaning of this hour. But who 
among us can do it justice? As we look upon these green fields and arching trees 
we would that these dumb witnesses of the past might be given tongues. Would 
that out of those bygone days some man or woman might arise and speaking 
with the voice of olden times tell us the hopes and fears of our fathers. Some of 
us bear their names, some of us share their blood, others have been permitted 
to enter into the spirit of their lives, all inherit the comfort and security their 
sacrifices have won. 

The simple outlines are quickly told. The real beginning rests with the 
coming of Elizabeth Haddon, a young Englishwoman, who took up her father's 
land and cast her lot with the unbroken wilderness. She brought with her a 
company of servants and dependants with various trades and occupations and 
this company formed the nucleus of the little v'illage. The brick manor house 
was built; blacksmith shop, tannery, mill, and distillery, followed in their turn 
furnishing the commodities most needful to the wants of the people. Elizabeth 
Haddon's religious affiliations were with the Society of Friends. Her home was 
open hospitality, and among those who shared her bounty was John Estaugh, 
a preacher of the same religious connection. Tradition slyly suggests that she 
proposed to him on the way to meeting. Her bold penmanship, her resourceful 
management of her estates, prove her to have been equal to every emergency. 

38 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



And though she became John Estaugh's wife the maiden name of Haddon sur- 
vives in the community history. 

The great road from Burlington to Salem ran through the village and was 
a thoroughfare for wagon trains; boats loaded with goods from Philadelphia 
came up Cooper's Creek as far as the ford. The outlying country passed into 
smaller holdings and the village became the centre of life for a considerable 
population. Stores were opened, new occupations found a foothold. The 
inhabitants were spared the horrors of the colonial wars. They were not subject 
to attack like a frontier town and the considerate treatment of the Indians by 
Penn saved the country from the ravages common in New England and New 
York. The community consciousness began to express itself in village insti- 
tutions. Their needs gave rise to common endeavor and in this period the 
Haddonfield Fire Company was formed "consisting of a few men and two 
leather buckets apiece." 

The peaceful quiet stream of life was rudely broken when the Colony of 
New Jersey joined with the others in their struggle for independence. Haddon- 
field was a border town and suffered indignities from both sides. One day in the 
hands of the continentals, the next day the scarlet uniforms of the King's troops 
flecked the forest green. The Friends Meeting-house was used as a hospital by 
each side in turn. The people were insulted and pillaged by both friend and foe. 
Parties came foraging and the people hid their cattle in Charlestown woods in 
a deep hollow and one thrifty dame concealed her cow in the cellar of her house 
at the first sign of approaching danger. Through it all the town was loyal; the 
township of Newton, of which Haddonfield was a part, raised its quota of troops 
and issued its own paper money to provide their equipment. Here Count 
Donop was quartered before the battle of Red Bank and with him a band of 
Hessians, outlandish in aspect and foreign in speech. They were succeeded by 
a Scotch regiment. Colonel Ellis, doughty and corpulent, stayed for a time and 
then, according to the quaint history of Richard Snowden, "deemed it expedient 
to depart because of the nearness of the enemy." Anthony Wayne, Count 
Pulaski, and Lafayette were familiar figures in its streets. And along King's 
Highway — as though in the irony of history — marched the British army in its 
evacuation of Philadelphia. Major Simcoe — a British army officer — in his 
published journals of the campaign tells of a farmer who shot at him from 
ambush. The guard captured the man and Simcoe says "to punish the rebel 
for his effrontery I sent him to Philadelphia." 

But the quality of the community life was not military. The tenor of its 
way was the human spirit living amid simple surroundings and manifesting 
elements of true strength on a small theatre of action. There were no conveni- 
ences, no comforts, and no railroads. The village was a stopping place for the 
great wagon trains moving from the coast to Philadelphia. A market house 
for farmers stood in Main Street a little west of the Indian King. On winter 
afternoons the farmer boys from the surrounding country used to race horses 
on Main Street, not to "improve the stock" but for the pure fun of the thing. 
It must not be imagined that the people had no interest in the outside world. 
Quite to the contrary. In 1793, during the yellow fever scourge in Philadelphia, 

39 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 

the village of Haddonfield contributed 304 chickens, 330 pounds of veal, 552 
pounds of mutton and beef, together with many other things for the relief of the 
city. 

"Whatever the village is the centre of, the inn is the centre of the village." 
Elizabeth Estaugh early opened a tavern house for the accommodation of trav- 
ellers. This was followed by several others, but the best known is the one bearing 
the name of the "Indian King." It was built by Mathias Aspden. Within its 
walls the Colonial legislature gathered thrice and at the last session substituted 
the word "state" for the word "colony" in the documents of the new common- 
wealth. The Committee of Public Safety also met here. Hither on pleasant 
days came groups of people on horseback, or heavy coaches drawn by deep- 
chested horses with outriders rolled slowly up to the door. The stable yard 
was filled with conveyances and grooms, the hostlers ran thither and hither. 
Within, the tables groaned under the game dinners, the taproom was filled with 
appreciative critics. From above came the scrape of the fiddle and the rythmic 
reverberations of young feet coupled with joyous laughter. And amid all the 
shadows cast by the numerous guests over the old ballroom none linger with 
such winsomeness as that cast by the memory of Dolly Madison. Its faint 
perfume is like lavender and rosemary. 

Needful crafts and industries multiplied as the population grew and its 
wants increased. The first tannery soon had a rival. The cornmill was built 
and the plaster mill followed. The manufacture of earthenware was one of the 
earliest industries, and amid changes in ownership and location the Haddonfield 
Pottery still survives as the oldest establishment in the town. The first store 
was opened in 1733 by Sarah Norris, at the corner of Potter Street and the 
Kings Highway. Do these simple beginnings seem insignificant beside the 
great mercantile interests of our day? They were the school in which those 
traits of commercial activity were fostered that have made our commerce 
world wide. Do the relics and records of their business seem petty and pro- 
vincial? Behind them we catch the thundering feet of great social movements 
that shook the world. For when Sarah Norris, the first store keeper died, she 
left direction for the liberation of her slaves. 

Back of all this ebb and flow of life we discern the predominant traits to 
be essentially religious, ethical, and intellectual. The varying shades of Prot- 
estant belief had their expression and their organization. The Friends school 
was established at an early date and attracted scholars from other states. Later 
the Grove school was built to meet the growing needs of a public school. The 
Haddonfield Library was founded in 1803, with nineteen subscribers. One of 
the most interesting relics of its history' is a copy of the earliest catalogue bound 
fast to an old shingle for safe keeping. 

Whether the quality of the community life attracted men of literary tastes 
or whether men of a generous culture gave it the culminating touch it is hard to 
say. During the years there have been a goodly number of men whose contribu- 
tions have been worthy of note: John Estaugh who wrote "A Call to the Unfaith- 
ful Professors of the Truth ;" Nathaniel Evans, the author of a number of poems; 
Richard Snowden and his history of the Revolution in quaint Biblical style; 

40 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 

Stephen M. Day a writer of school books and author of a widely circulated tract, 
"against the traffic in spirituous liquors"; John E. Redman, a magazine writer 
and John Redman, the "Haddonfield bard." Local history has been fortunate 
in John Clement who collected a large amount of valuable material; James S. 
Lippincott wrote literary and scientific essays while living here; William Pittenger 
rewrote his \olume on "Andrews Railroad Raid" and E. H. Stokes wrote some 
of his poems. 

But greater than war, or trade, or literature, have been some lives which 
have moulded the community with an enduring influence. There are a few who 
deserve to be remembered, not for public office, nor business capacity nor for 
family connection, but for sterling worth of character. Nathaniel Evans, a 
graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, subsequently a student at Oxford, 
was ordained an Episcopal clergyman. The volume of poems published after 
his death found a sale in every English colony. His piety and character made 
so deep an impression that men honored the man more than the poet. Stephen 
M. Day was master at the Friends' school, a teacher of character as well as of 
books; he attracted pupils even from New England, and the impress of his 
character on his pupils may be inferred from the fact that the founder of "Littell's 
Living Age" testifies to the inspiration he imparted to those who sat under him. 
John Van Court, a Philadelphia publisher, and bookseller, for many years 
proprietor of the "Ladies Garland," one of the earliest of the women's magazines, 
publisher of the "Haddonfield Basket," a fine type of gentleman, met reverses 
of fortune with high courage and gentle words. 

Every town owes much to its physicians. John Craig was the first doctor 
and he died in 1784. By far the best known and best loved was Bowman 
Hendry. He settled in Haddonfield in 1794, immediately after his graduation 
from the University of Pennsylvania. His contemporaries describe him as 
steadfast in purpose, high minded and an honorable man. By day and by 
night, in heat or in cold, if mortal man and a good horse could make a way to 
the scene of need no patient was disappointed. For over forty years he came 
and went known simply as "the doctor." He had a long circuit, reaching nearly 
to Egg Harbor, the country was still a wilderness of pine and cedar and much 
of this work must be done on horseback. Sometimes he would cover from 
thirty to fifty miles in a single day, and the total distance travelled is stupendous. 
The esteem in which he was held by the community was shown after the burning 
of his barn, when his neighbors turned out and immediately rebuilt it. 

It has been reserved for these later years to witness the finest embodiment 
of the spirit and ideals of this place, a life gifted by nature, trained in the school 
of experience, wrought upon by the spirit of God until men recognized the 
best in Charles Rhoads. He came to Haddonfield in his early manhood and 
from the beginning was recognized as a leader. He retired from business cares 
while there was yet a generous margin of years and strength and devoted himself 
to religious and philanthropic needs. Possessing a high culture, a deep spiritual 
nature, public interest and courageous citizenship, keen intellectual interests 
and broad religious sympathies he has made Haddonfield far richer for all the 
years to come. 

41 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 

And what has come forth from the crucible of the years? A typically 
American community in the best sense of the term. A place where democracy 
stands untarnished by great overshadowing wealth, where poverty with wolfish 
teeth has not done her worst, where seething social unrest has not raised its ma- 
terialistic cry, where the best men have dreamed and thought finds hospitality, 
where the moral safeguards of life are respected, where religion is honored and 
God is the hunger of the heart. 

Two hundred years have passed away and the lofty yet simple idealism of 
the founders is not entirely forgotten. The memories of this hour are an honor 
to our fathers, let us make them a joy to our children. But it is not enough 
simply to keep this day of commemoration, to meet on these historic grounds, 
to walk these shaded streets, and to conserve these ancient landmarks. It is 
our duty to protect these monuments from the corroding touch of indifference, 
and these names from the withering breath of time. It is also our responsibility 
to build on those foundations that were laid in frugality, industry, common 
friendliness, and high devotion to principle. And only as we seek to perpetuate 
those virtues by which they conquered, do we give worthy homage to the names 
we are proud to bear, and real reverence to those lives, whose examples shine 
like beacon lights across stormy seas of time. 

The former days were not better than these, and we know that the days to 
come will be larger in opportunity, stronger in action, and more noble in aspira- 
tion. Here in this place of simple trust, in these fields of gentle living and noble 
desires, let us kindle the undying hope that those who come after us will keep 
from decay and ruin these places of historic memories, and hold fast to that herit- 
age of faith which is the foundation of character and virtue and noble living. 
These things were dear to our fathers, may they be precious to our children. 
And unto Him who endures forever amid the perishing things of this world, who 
guides the feet of His children into the paths of righteousness and peace, may we 
leave the days to come; believing that though life may be different it will be 
better, though storms may break they shall not uproot, and that over our homes 
and our loved ones will brood the Eternal Presence that "never slumbers nor 
sleeps." 



42 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



Poem— "HADDONFIELD." 

By James Lane Pennypacker. 

Village of pleasant lanes, 

Village of tree-tops where the wild birds come, 

Village of welcoming church-spires. 

Village of cheering hearth-fires, 

Village where the neighbor spirit reigns. 

Village of children. Home! 

Serene, on thy chosen seat, 

Dear mother, quaint in neckerchief and cap, 

Thou hast watched the passing show 

Of the centuries come and go. 

And scarce hath changed the posture of thy feet 

Or hands within thy lap. 

Joy hath filled thy heart 

For days of peace and industry's reward ; 

And, when the dogs of war 

Came growling round thy door. 

Calm, thou hast stilled thy pulses' sudden start, 

And steadfast kept thy guard. 

The world's tides rising wild 

At Waterloo just rippled to thine ear; 

Philosophy's vague quest. 

In which men eager pressed. 

But roused thee to a passing wonder mild 

That they should doubt or fear. 

With thy blessing and brave goodbye. 

Thou hast seen thy children leave the old roof tree. 

In flush of manhood's youth, 

Some to carry truth 

To distant lands, and some, thy sons, to die 

On fields that set men free; 

And some to return to lay 

Their hands upon thy brow in speechless praise, 
For the stern simplicity 
They learned about thy knee, 

43 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 

That held them staunch along their troubled way 
And cheered their darkened days. 

Abroad are the crowds' wild cries, — 

"Haste, for the fight is on for creed or gain!" 

"Haste! For want befalls us!" 

"Haste! For sin appalls us!" 

Ah, mother, well thou knowest, century wise, 

God's time makes plain! 



44 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



WORDS OF THE CANTATA 

By Grace F. Pennypacker 

[The music by J. \V. P. has been published in another volume] 

1.— THE SPIRIT OF THE PIONEER. 

Recitative: — "Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath 
commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that 
ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess." — (Deut. V-6.) 



THE CONQUEST OF THE CEDAR SWAMP. 

Across the sea they sail — - 

The sturdy pioneers — 
Through forests dense to blaze the trail 

With faith that conquers fears. 
In cedar swamps their axes ringing 
Blend with the call of wild birds singing. 

Courage and power are theirs — 
The vanguard of the race — 

With will to do, with zeal that dares 
All obstacles to face. 

Through trackless wilds the path they break — 

A nation follows in their wake! 



2.— THE SPIRIT OF ACHIEVEMENT. 

Recitative: — "Behold, I say unto you. Lift up your eyes and look on the 
fields, for they are white already to the harvest." — (St. John IV, 35.) 



THE WHEAT FIELD. 

Scatter the seed, ye tillers of the soil, 

With purpose strong to vision coming years! 

Scatter the seed, in doubt and weary toil, — 

Hope sees a rainbow thro' the mist of tears! 

The seed you scatter thus with lavish hand 
Fowls of the air are waiting to devour. 

Undaunted toil must still reclaim the land, — 

Hope sees a rainbow thro' the summer shower! 
45 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 

Scatter the seed! It falls in fallow ground, 

Let patience to her perfect work attend. 
The forces that in winter fields abound 

In God's due season will the harvest send. 



3.— THE SPIRIT OF PATRIOTISM. 

Recitative: — "And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye 
be not troubled : for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet." — 
(St. Matthew XXIV-6.) 



THE BUTTONWOOD TREES. 

Yours is the primal right to this fair land! 

Men come, and go, enduring for a day. 
Long centuries ye stood, and still ye stand 

As sentinels along the King's Highway! 

Chorus : — 

Your roots strike deep beneath the town's foundations, 
Your tops tower high above our habitations. 
Still thrill us with the patriot's aspirations. 

Old Buttonwoods along the King's Highways! 

A strong young bough from parent stem was torn, 
To find and hold its growth by blood and toil. 

The sturdy nation 'neath your branches born 
Is kin with you in claiming sacred soil! 

Chorus: — (as above) 

Beneath your spreading shade war seethed and surged ; 

Turmoil and strife below your branches rolled! 
But peace and freedom from the dust emerged, 

And stable government itself controlled! 

Chorus: — (as above) 



4.— THE SPIRIT OF HOME. 

Recitative: — "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth 
me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul : He leadeth me in the paths 
of righteousness for his name's sake. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow 
me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." — 
(Psalms XXIII-2, 3, 6.) 

46 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



THE OLD MILL ON COOPER'S CREEK. 

The stream flows swift, the stream flows strong; 

The mill-wheels, churning ever, 
Drip with the sound of the same old song 
The bubbling mill-race carries along 

As it winds to the mighty river. 

Chorus: — 

And this is the song the wheels repeat: — 

"Loosen your sheaves from binding! 
Garner your corn, thresh out your wheat — 
The labor of harvest is now complete — 

The grain is ripe for the grinding!" 

The miller stands by the cottage door; 

His thoughts are turning ever 
To the brimming bags that hold in store 
The treasures of toil that will outward pour 

From the mill like a mighty river! 

Chorus: — (as above) 

Our sires sowed where our children reap; 

The husbandman lives forever. 
Thrift builds the home for content to keep. 
And love in the heart wells strong and deep. 

Like the tide of a mighty river! 

Chorus: — fas above) 



5.— THE SPIRIT OF THANKSGIVING. 

Recitative: — "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto 
thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall 
direct thy paths." — (Proverbs 111,-5, 6.) 



PAEAN OF PRAISE. 

Our fathers' God, whose cloud by day 
And pillar of flame by night 

Still led them o'er the trackless way 
And made their darkness bright, — 

Our efforts bless, direct our powers 
With light that for them shone! 

Be Thou our children's God and ours — 
Lead Thou us on! 

47 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 

Our fathers sowed and tilled the field — 

We reap where they have sown. 
We know not what shall be revealed — 

The harvests are Thine own! 
We bless Thee for the heritage 

Their prowess for us won! 
Thy vineyards still our powers engage — 
Lead Thou us on! 

Our fathers' God, point Thou the way! 

To Thee we consecrate 
Our lives that shall Thy Will obey 

For Home, for Church, for State! 
Secure in Thee, the future's page 

We do not fear to con. 

Giver of all our heritage — 

Lead Thou us on! 



48 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HADDONFIELD, 
NEW JERSEY 

Comprising more important Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Literature relat- 
ing to that Historic Village and Borough, arranged chronologically. 
Compiled by Samuel N. Rhoads, November, 1913. 



1744— ESTAUGH, JOHN: A Call to the 
unfaithful Professors of Truth (etc., 
etc.). To which is added divers 
Epistles of the same Author. 16 mo. 
l8-|-iigpp. Phila. printed by Benjamin 
Franklin. (Privately published by 
J. Estaugh's widow, who wrote the 
valuable preface. It was republished 
in London and in Dublin the next 
year in 12 mo, the London ed. having 
l6-(-63pp, the Dublin ed. I6+I04pp). 

1749— CHALKLEY, THOMAS: Collection 
of the works of, in 2 Parts, (includ- 
ing his Journal and Life). Phila., 
Printed by B. Franklin and D. 
Hall. 

1753?— LEAMING, AARON: and SPICER, 
JACOB: The Grants, Concessions 
and Original Constitutions of the 
Province of New Jersey; the Acts 
passed (etc); the Surrender to Queen 
Anne; Lord Cornbury's Commission 
(etc). Folio, 760pp. Phila., W. Brad- 
ford, Printer (NO DATE). 

1754— FOTHERGILL, JOHN:' Account of 
the Life, Travels (etc.) of, with 
Epistles to Friends in America. 12 
mo., 280pp. London, pr. Phila. repr. 
by J. Chattin. 

1757— RICHARDSON, JOHN: Life of (etc., 
etc.) and his Ministry in England, 
Ireland, America, (etc.), London. 
(References to John Estaugh, etc). 

1772— EVANS, NATHANIEL, A. M. 
(Missionary of the Soc. for Propog. of 
Gospel, for Gloucester Co. N. J.): 
Poems on Several Occasions, with some 
other compositions. (Edited by Wm. 
Smith) 28-|-l6o+24pp. List of sub- 
scribers. Phila. 



1784— ACTS OF THE GENERAL .'VSSEM" 
BLY of the State of New Jersey from 
Establishment of the Present Govern- 
ment to Dec. 24, 1783, (etc., etc.). 
Folio 389 pp.-j-appx. (Acts passed at 
the Indian King, Haddonfield, cited 
on pp. 7 to 26 inclusive) Trenton, 
printed by Isaac Collins, State Printer. 

1787— A COLLECTION OF MEMORIALS 
concerning Ministers and others of the 
People called Quakers in Penna., and 
N. Jersey, (etc.) from the first Settle- 
ment to 1787. 439pp. Phila. (Of the 
ten persons memorialized in this 
book, belonging to Haddonfield Meet- 
ing, John and Elizabeth Estaugh, 
Joseph and Hannah Cooper and 
Thos. Redman are most noteworthy.) 

1790— GOUGH, JOHN: History of the 
People called Quakers (etc.). 4 vols. 
Dublin. (In Chaps. 10 and 19 of Vol. 
4, pp 14-152 and 454-457; John 
Estaugh is noticed at some length). 

1793— SNOWDEN, RICHARD: The Amer- 
ican Revolution; in the style of 
Ancient History. 2 vols. 12 mo. 
226+2 l6pp. Phila. (The Author was 
a resident schoolmaster of Haddon- 
field. This work passed through 
several editions). 

1795— SNOWDEN, RICHARD: The Co- 
lumbiad: a Poem on the American 
War, In 13 Cantoes. 12 mo. 46pp. 
Phila. (1st Ed). 

1798?— SNOWDEN, RICHARD: The Co- 
lumbiad; a Poem on the American 
War, in 13 Cantoes. 12 mo. 44pp. 
Baltimore, W. Pechin, (No date). 
(Published with Snowden's American 
Revolution, by same printer). 



49 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSA R Y 



1804— DAY, STEPHEN MUNSON: Master 
of Friends' School at Haddonfield. 
The Art of Spelling, facilitated, etc., 
for the use of Schools. 12 mo. 154pp. 
boards. Phila. pr. for Benj. Johnson 
by J. Rakestraw Printer. 

1804— DAY, STEPHEN MUNSON: Les- 
sons in Reading; being select Passages 
from the Scriptures; chiefly from 
Isaiah. To serve as an easy intro- 
duction to Reading. 12 mo. boards, 
62pp. Phila. B. Johnson. (Compiled 
at Haddonfield while he was Head- 
Master of the Friends' School). 



1804-5- 



1805— 



1805—: 



DAY, STEPHEN MUNSON, 
(Editor): The Evening Fireside. A 
weekly Magazine, 3 vols, 4to. of about 
400 pages in each vol. Phila. J. 
Rakestraw. (Day early retired from 
this, on advice of his friends). 
HADDONFIELD LIBRARY COM- 
PANY ; Constitution and By Laws of, 
with Catalogue of Books (etc.), paper 
28pp. Phila. 

SNOWDEN, RICHARD: History 
of North and South America from its 
Discovery to the Death of General 
Washington. 12 mo. 2 vols, in i, 
196+166PP., maps, Phila. (Snowden 
was a Haddonfield schoolmaster. 
This work saw several editions as a 
text-book and was revised and con- 
tinued to 1821 by C. W. Bazeley, 
Phila. 1832). 

-ACCOUNT OF TIME of holding 
Yearly, Quarterly and Monthly Meet- 
ings of Friends on the Continent of 
America (etc.). 16 mo., 48pp. Phila. 
pub. by E. Kimber. (No date). 
-DAY, STEPHEN MUNSON: (Pre- 
ceptor of the Boarding School at 
Haddonfield): The Pronouncing Spel- 
ling Book. Burlington, N. J. (Not 
seen). 

-DAY, STEPHEN MUNSON: Serious 
Thoughts on the Traffic in distilled 
Spirituous Liquors (etc). 24pp. paper 
covers. (Burlington?). 
-JONES, CHARLES: Candid exami- 
nation into Origin of Difference of 
Colour in the Human Family (etd 
etc). 12 mo., 36pp. Phila. (Had- 
donfield, p. 3). 



1817— HADDONFIELD LIBRARY COM- 
PANY, Catalogue of Books belonging 
to, March 1st. 15 leaves printed on 
one side of paper. (No title leaf 
published) Phila. 

1827— JORDAN, RICHARD, of Newton, 
N. J.: Biographical Memoir of. 38pp. 
Phila. 

1829— JORDAN, RICHARD: Journal of 
the Life and Religious Labors of; 
Minister of the Gospel, late of New- 
ton, Glouc. Co., N. J. 172PP 12 mo. 
Phila. 

1830— MEMOIRS OF THE GLOUCES- 
TER Fox Hunting Club, Near 
Philadelphia. 57PP-. '■!"«. Phila., 
Pub. by Judah Dobson. 

1830— REDMAN, JOHN EVANS: "The 
Haddon Mill", (A Poem with intro- 
ductory note, and accompanying En- 
graving, on the Plaster Mill owned by 
the Redman family above the head 
of Silver Lake). Published in "The 
Casket", Phila., April 1830, p 169. 
1830— REDMAN, JOHN EVANS: "Hop- 
kins' Mill and Environs", pp. 313, 
314, Phila. "Casket" for July, with 
engraving. (Redman was an artist 
and drew the originals of the illustra- 
tions, also a water-color of the Es- 
taugh House, the only sketch of that 
historic mansion, known to exist. 
He was an uncle of John Estaugh 
Redman of Haddonfield, known to 
so many of the residents of the town 
during the last 60 years, and now 
deceased). 
1831— MEMOIRS OF JOSHUA EVANS of 
N. J. Friends' Miscellany, Vol i, pp. 
299 to 312. Byberry. 
l83i_SMITH, — Account of Settlement of 
Friends' Meetings and Building of 
Meeting houses in Pennsylvania and 
N. Jersey. Hazard's Register of 
Penna., vol. 7, pp. 100, 116, 132 (3 
articles of several pages). Phila. 
1832— HICKS, ELIAS: Journal of the Life 

of. 451pp., portrait. N. York. 
1834— GORDON, THOMAS F.: Gazetteer 
of New Jersey (etc., etc.), with a 
Map. (Also) Histor>' of New Jersey 
from its Discover^' to Adoption of 
the Federal Constitution. Two works 
in one volume; 266-|-339pp. Trenton. 



50 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



1837— ASPDEN, MATTHIAS: Letters 
(etc.) in the Case of the Succession of. 
316pp. Phila. (Relates to Will, etc., 
of man who built the Indian King 
Tavern in Hadd., N. J ). 

1837— EVANS, JOSHUA: Journal of the 
Life (etc.) of, late of New Jersey. 
Friends' Miscellany, Vol. X. 12 mo., 
212pp. Phila. (Also contains John 
Hunt's Life. Evans was an unusual 
man of the John Woolman type, a 
Quaker minister who was then unique 
in the wearing of a beard; was also 
a vegetarian, wore undyed garments, 
etc.). 

1838— ACCOUNT OF PHILADELPHIA 
Yearly Meeting and Times of holding 
the Meetings composing it. With 
folding Map. 16 mo., 35pp. Phila. 
N. Kite. 

1839— DAY, STEPHEN MUNSON: Brief 
notices of the Life and character of. 
Friends' Miscellany, ed. by J. & I. 
Comly, Vol. 12, 12 mo., pp. 154 to 161. 
(Day was Teacher of the Friends' 
School at Haddonfield, and died 
there). 

1840— JACKSON, JOHN; TRUMAN, 
GEORGE and LONGSTRETH, 
THOMAS B: Brief Account of their 
Travels in the West Indies. 16 mo. 
illus. Phila. (They visited the graves 
of John Estaugh and Thomas Chalkley 
in Tortola and made a sketch of 
them, with the site of the Friends' 
Meeting House, as seen in one of the 
plates). 

1844— ASPDEN WILL CASE: Supreme 
Court U. States, Rept. 95, Dec. 
term; signed by D. Hoffman, Atty. 
47pp. (See Aspden, 1851). 

1844— BARBER, J. W. and HOWE, 
HENRY: Historical Collections of 
New Jersey. 512pp., colored plates 
and woodcuts. N. York. 

1844— SIMCOE'S MILITARY JOURNAL. 
History of Operations of a Partisan 
Corps of the Queen's Rangers, by 
Lieut. Col. J. G. Simcoe in the War 
of the Amer. Revolution. 328pp. N. 
York. (Second edition) 

1845— MICKLE, IS.AAC: Reminiscences of 
Old Gloucester, or Incidents in the 



Ilislury uf the Cuunties of Gloucester, 
Atlantic, and Camden, New Jersey. 
99pp., illus. Phila. (A 2nd. ed. was 
published in Camden in 1877 with 
107pp. 3nd additional illustrations). 

1846— CHILD, LYDIA MARIA: Fact and 
Fiction: A collection of Stories. 
12 mo. 282pp. N. York and Boston. 
(The chapter on "The Youthful 
Emigrant, a true Story of the Early 
Settlement of New Jersey", pp. 40 
to 60 inclusive, is the basis of Long- 
fellow's poem "Elizabeth" and of 
most of the literature by which 
Elizabeth Haddon is popularly known). 

1846— CLEMENT, JOHN: Map of Camden 
County, N. J., compiled by John 
Clement Jr., of Haddonfield. (folio 
sheet, colored, 30x18 inches, folded 
to a 16 mo. leather cover,) Phila. J. 
Sinclair. 

1846— HOFFMAN, DAVID: Notes of Ar- 
gument re M. Aspden Will-Case. 
43pp. Phila. (See Aspden, 1851). 

1847— R.\YBOLD, REV. G. A: Annals 
of Methodism in various portions of 
West Jersey. First series, Camden 
and Vicinity. 16 mo., 142pp. Phila. 

1848— HADDONFIELD TURNPIKE (to 
Camden, N. J.): Rates of toll on. 
Broadsheet, small folio, ornate borders, 
printed on one side. "Camden, N. J., 
P. J. Gray, Printer; June 1848". 

1848— HENDRY, BOWMAN, M. D., Late 
of Gloucester County, N. J.: Memoir 
of. By a Physician (Dr. Reynell 
Coates of Phila). 44pp., printed 
covers. Phila. 

1848— MULFORD, ISAAC S., M. D.: 
Civil and Political History of New 
Jersey. 500pp. Camden. 

1850— BOWDEN, JAMES: History of the 
Society of Friends in America. 2 vols., 
426, 411pp., illus.. Maps. London, 
1850-54. 

1851— ASPDEN VERSUS ASPDEN: Paper 
book of the Supreme Court of the U. 
States, No. 160. 7+ 1209pp. (Re- 
lates to the celebrated Will-Case of 
the contesting Heirs of Matthias 
Aspden, once resident and property 
owner in Haddonfield, N. J. This 
litigation lasted from 1824 to 1853, 



51 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 



when the sum of $700,000. was divided 
among 35 successful claimants out of 
300 or more English and American 
contestants). 

1851— H A N D B O O K FOR THE 
STRANGER IN PHILADELPHIA: 
Describing the City and its Environs. 
16 mo., 1 13pp., map and illus. (Had- 
donfield described on page 113). 

1853— H ADDONFIELD BAPTIST 
CHURCH: Manual of; containing 
Sketch of its origin and Progress, 
Government, articles. Discipline (etc). 
Pub. by order of the Church. 16 mo. 
36pp., list of Members, 12pp.; frontisp. 
Phila. 

1854— (SCHMOELE, HENRY M. D.) and 
J. L. ROWAND, Sr: Plan of the 
Haddonfield Ready Villa Association, 
for forming (etc.), one of the most 
beautiful and healthy Retreats in 
America (etc. etc). 47pp., illus. 5 
plates and large folding Map. Phila. 

1858— BOOK OF MEETINGS: Times and 
places of holding Meetings of the 
Society of Friends in America. 12 
mo., 98pp. N. York. 

1859— EASTON, ALEXANDER: Practical 
Treatise on Street or Horse Power 
Railways; their location, construc- 
tion (etc., etc.). 149pp., illus. Phila. 
(On p. 16 a Horse Railway from 
Camden to Haddonfield, N. J. is 
proposed and corporators referred to. 
Plate 73, p. 89 is a spirited engraving 
of "The Haddon Car", a sort of bus 
on rails, drawn by one horse ! ; 
12 persons in various costumes are 
seated in the car.) 

1859— FOULKE, WM. PARKER (and 
others): Account of a Fossil extinct 
Reptile recently discovered at Haddon- 
donfield. New Jersey. Excerpt from 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Phila. 
l6pp., map. (Treats of the Hadro- 
saunis foulki, named by Dr. Leidy, 
and which forms one of the most 
striking exhibits in the Museum of 
the Academy). 

i860— MICHENER, EZRA: Retrospect of 
early Quakerism. From the Records 
of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and 
the Meetings composing it; with 



Account of their first Establishment. 
434pp., illus. Phila. 
1867— SMITH, JOSEPH: Descriptive Cat- 
alogue of Friends Books (etc.), 
from their first Rise to the Present 
time (etc., etc). 2 vols., i027-f-984pp. 
London. 

1867— WOOD, MARY S: Social Hours 
with Friends. 12 mo., 300pp. (Re- 
prints, with prefatory note, L. M. 
Child's account of the Youthful 
Emigrant; pp. 240 to 259. New 
York. (See Child; 1846) 

l868— CLEMENT, JOHN: Scraps of Local 
to History. A Series of Biographic and 

1872 Genealogical articles, relating to the 
early Settlers of Camden County, N. 
J., published in the West Jersey 
Press, a weekly newspaper conducted 
by S. Chew in Camden. These 
formed the basis for J. Clement's 
book, "Settlers of Newton Town- 
ship", Published in 1877). 

1870— PROCEEDINGS, CONSTITUTION 
(etc.) of the Surveyor's Association of 
West New Jersey. Printed covers, 
92pp. Camden. (Contains paper by 
Secy., John Clement, relating to 
Haddonfield and E. Haddon). 

1871— CLEMENT, JOHN: Report on Claim 
of Heirs of Samuel Collins, Dec'd. of 
Waterford Twp. Gloucester Co., N. 
J., to an Estate in England. 54pp. 
Trenton. 

1872— ELMER, LUCIUS Q. C: Constitu- 
tion and Government of N. Jersey; 
Biographies of the Governors, 1776- 
1845, and Reminiscences of Bench 
and Bar (etc). 495 pp. Newark. 

1872— MINUTES of the Council of Safety 
of the State of N. Jersey; 1777. 
287 pp. Jersey City. 

1873— LONGFELLOW, H. W: Aftermath: 
(and other Poems). 12 mo., illus., 
144pp. Boston. (In this edition first 
appears the Poem, "Elizabeth"; in 
the 3rd series of Tales of a Wayside 
Inn, pp. 38 to 62 inclusive). 

1873— CLEMENT, JOHN: The Estaugh 
House. An article in Anier. Historical 
Record; Vol. 2, Aug. 1873. pp. 337- 
339. Fine View of Haddon Hall 
Phila. 



Sa 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



1874— CLEMENT, JOHN: The Days of 
the Kings. Haddonfield's early His- 
tory. West Jersey Press, Camden; 
3 columns, also in Forney's Phila. 
Weekly Press, Nov. 14, 1874. 

1874— THE HADDONFIELD BASKET 

(edited and published by John Van 
Court). Vols. I and 2, 8vo. and 410. 
from July 1874 to May 1876 (The 
first newspaper pub. in Haddonfield 
N. J.; pub. monthly.) 

1875— HADDONFIELD LIBRARY COM- 
PANY: Articles of Association, Con- 
stitution, Regulations and List of 
Books of. 12 mo., 6opp. Phila. 

1876— CLEMENT, JOHN: Revolutionary 
Reminiscences of Camden County N. 
Jersey. (A Centennial pamphlet) 
printed covers, 38pp. Camden. 

1876— MURRAY, REV. GUSTAVUS M:, 
Oration delivered at Haddonfield N. 
J. July 4th. (The historic data for 
this given Mr. Murray by Judge J. 
Clement. About 3 columns; pub- 
lished in some newspaper. Query if 
the W. Jersey Press?). 

1876— SHOURDS, THOMAS: History and 
Genealogy of Fenwick's Colony. 553 
pp., Portrait, Bridgcton, N. J. 

1876— WHEELER, EDW'D S.: Scheyichbi 
and the Strand, or Early Days along 
the Delaware (etc., etc.). Il6pp., 
illus. Phila. 

1877— CLEMENT, JOHN: of Haddonfield, 
N. J. Sketches of the First Emigrant 
Settlers of Newton Township, Old 
Gloucester County, West New Jersey. 
444pp., portrait and maps. Camden, 
N. J. (The most valuable work of 
reference relating to Haddonfield and 
vicinity, including an entire chapter 
on Elizabeth Estaugh). 

1879— CLEMENT, JOHN: Sketch of the 
Village of Haddonfield, New Jersey, 
and its Revolutionary Reminiscences. 
l6mo. pr. covers, 28pp. Haddonfield; 
J. Van Court, printer. (A reprint of 
article in the Haddonfield Basket of 
previous date). 

1879— "JOHN M. WHITALL: The story of 
his Life By his daughter, H. W. S." 
338pp. portrait. Phila. 



1S79— WICKES, STEPHEN, M. D.: His- 
tory of Medicine in New Jersey, and 
of its Medical Men, from the Settle- 
ment to A. D. 1800. 449pp. Newark. 

1880— CATALOGUE OF ST. AGNES' 
HALL AND ST. JOHN'S ACAD- 
EMY, Haddonfield, N. J. (etc). 
32pp., pr. covers, frontisp. (The 
Messrs. Riley, Principals). 

1880— CLEMENT, JOHN: Notes and Me- 
moranda relating to the West New 
Jersey Society of West N. J. 33pp. 
Camden. 

1880— PROCEEDINGS, CONSTITUTION, 
List of Members (etc.) of the Surveyors' 
Association of West New Jersey. 
With Historical and Biographical 
Sketches. 468pp. Camden. (John 
Clement of Haddonfield was Secre- 
tary of the Assn. and compiler of this 
important work, also author of some 
of the papers read). 

1881— FRAGMENTARY MEMORIALS of 
John and Elizabeth Estaugh, By 
Hannah J. Sturge. 12 mo. 72pp. 
Gloucester (Engl.). (Reprints of pre- 
vious publications). 

1882— CLEMENT, JOHN: Historical 
Sketches relating to the Early Settle- 
ment of West New Jersey. N. P. 
Printed for private distribution. 
(Pub. originally in Proc. Surv. Assn., 
See 1880). 

1883— CLEMENT, JOHN: Historical 
Sketch of the Baptist Church in 
Haddonfield, N. Jersey, founded June 
II, 1818. 30pp. Privately printed. 
Camden. 

1883?— CLEM E NT, JOHN: Historical 
Sketches of Early Settlements of West 
New Jersey. Privately printed, no 
paging, nor date. (There are 2 titles 
in this brochure, viz: — "Wm Penn and 
West Jersey" and "Proprietary Towns 
of West N. Jersey". 

1885— STOKES, REV. E. H.: Blossoms. 
A Book of Poems. 364 pp. Phila. 
("Haddonfield", p 20). 

1886— PROWELL, GEORGE R.: Hisotry 
of Camden County, New Jersey. 
Imperail 8vo., 769 pp., illus. Phila. 
(The best Camden Co. History. 
Judge J. Clement wrote the Haddon 
Township portion). 



53 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 



1886— STEVENSON, JOHN R., M. D.: 
History of Medicine and Medical 
Men of Camden County, N. J. 
4to. 39pp. Phila. 
1887— PITTENGER, WILLIAM: Daring 
and Suffering: — a History of the 
Andrews Rail Road Raid into Georgia 
in 1862. (Written in Haddonfield). 
416, 55PP- N. York. 
1887— THE BASKET. Printed and pub- 
lished by John Van Court, Haddon- 
field, N. J. 4to. irregularly pub. 
weekly. Nov. 2nd, 1887 to Friday, 
Apr.24, 1891. WholeNo., 91. 
1888— PEYTON, COL. JESSE E.: Rem- 
iniscences of Philadelphia during the 
past Half-Century. By a Native of 
Kentucky. 32pp., illus. Phila. 
1888— THE CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL 
OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 
Compiled by J. W. Woodside (Ref- 
erences to and by Col. Peyton of 
Haddonfield). 28pp. illus. (Phila). 
1889— DRINKER, ELIZABETH: Extracts 
from the Journal of, from 1759 to 
1807. Edited by Henry D. Biddle. 
423pp. Phila. 
1889— REDMAN, THOMAS: Journal of 
during his Confinement in Woodbury, 
N. J. Jail for his Testimony against 
War, as Clerk of Haddonfield Monthly 
Meeting, during the American Revo- 
lution. (Pub. Jan. 23, 1889, in the 
W. Jersey Press? or Mt. Holly Mirror? 
About 4 columns). 
1890— ATKINSON, JOHN B.: The Atkin- 
sons of New Jersey, from Records of 
Friends' Meetings, (etc). 4to., 40 
leaves, pr. on one side only; illus. 
Earlington, Ky. Aug. 1st. 
1892— PENNYPACKER, JAMES LANE: 
About Haddonfield New Jersey's 
Historic Village of Happy Homes. 
i}i columns in the Phila. North 
American, Dec. 3rd. 
189 — (REDMAN, JOHN ESTAUGH): 
"Haddonfield". An 8vo. sheet, printed 
on one side. (A Poem of 52 lines, 
stated by the present owner to have 
been printed in Haddonfield, probably 
by George Stokley. It is anonymous 
and without date or place of imprint, 
nor does it appear in J. E. R's volume 
of Poems, published later). 



1893— HAINES, MARY RHOADS: Clover- 
croft Chronicles; 1314-1893. Printed 
for private circulation. 347pp. Phila. 
(References to Charles Rhoads and 
family, who removed to Haddonfield 
in 1863, from Phila). 
1893— MC ILVAINE, CHARLES: Flag of 
the Land and the Free. Music and 
poems. 4to. sheet, Ip. Haddonfield, 
June 12. 
1893— PENNYPACKER, JAMES LANE 
(Editor): The Haddonfield News. 
Printed in Phila. by Dewey & Eakins. 
A Weekly, pub. from April 1st, 1893 
to April 28th, 1894. Folio, 4pp. per 
issue, illus. ending with Vol. 2, No. 4. 
1893— REDMAN, J. E: Stephen Munson 
Day (of Haddonfield). Haddonfield 
Tribune (2 columns). 
1893— SMITH, JOSEPH: Supplement to a 
Descriptive Catalogue of Friends 
Books (etc). 364pp. London. (See 
under date of 1867, same Author). 
1893— STILLE, CHARLES J.: Major Gen- 
eral Wayne (etc.). A life of Wayne 
containing an important military letter 
from Wayne to Washington, dated 
Haddonfield, 4th March, 1778. 
441pp. Phila. 
1894— MC ILVAINE, CAPT. CHAS. (and 
others) : Songs from the Jersey Queen. 
Printed covers, illus., not paged. 
Souvenir ed. (A Comic lot of originals 
re Haddonfield, with advertisements 
on back of each leaf). 
1894— NICHOLSON, REBECCA: Contri- 
butions to the Biography of Elizabeth 
Estaugh. Compiled in part from un- 
published Mss. i2mo. 80,-flopp. 
of appx., frontisp. Phila. (Appendix 
issued one year later). 
1894— REDMAN, JOHN ESTAUGH: Orig- 
inal Poems. 17pp. Phila. 
1894— RHOADS, SAMUEL NICHOLSON: 
Reprint of the North American 
Zoology by George Ord; published in 
the 2nd. Amer. Ed. of Guthrie's 
Geography, in 1815. With an Appen- 
dix on the more important Scientific 
and Historic Questions involved. Pub- 
lished by the Editor. Haddonfield, 
New Jersey; Geo. Stokley printer. 
1 0-1-77 -l-appx. of 90PP, (This is the 
only book both printed and published 
in Haddonfield.) 



54 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



1895— PEYTON, COL. JESSE E.: Rem- 
iniscences of the Past. 98pp., illus. 
Phila. (Written in Haddonfield). 
1895— REDMAN, JOHN ESTAUGH: Mis- 
cellaneous Poems. Portrait, loipp. 
Phila. (All these thirty-two poems 
and one prose essay were written in 
Haddonfield.) 
1895— TOWNSEND, ALICE N.: Chronol- 
ogy of the Society of Friends-1644- 
1826. 51pp. Phila. 
1896— COOPER, HOWARD M.: William 
Cooper of Greenfield, Woodbury, N. J. 
and his Cooper Ancestry. Printed 
cover-title, 21pp. Camden. 
1896— GODFREY, E. L. B., M. D.: History 
of the Medical Profession of Camden 
County, N. J. 303 pp. Phila. 
1896— MC ILVAINE, CAPT. CHARLES: 
The New Woman — A Farce. Written 
for the Young Men's Literary Society 
of Haddonfield, N. J. (only 6 copies 
circulated) 32pp. Phila. 
1897— NICHOLSON, WILLIAM HOP- 
KINS: My Ancestors: 1675 to 1885. 
148pp., illus. privately published. 
Phila. 

1897— SUIT OF HENRY D. MOORE, A. 
W. Clement, et al, vs. West Jersey 
Traction Co. and Borough of Haddon- 
field. 4to. 113pp. N. P. (Camden?) 

1898— ELIZABETH HADDON. A true 
Narrative of the Early Settlement of 
New Jersey. i2mo. printed paper 
covers, 27pp. Phila. (A reprint, with 
alterations and erroneous introduction, 
by Edwin L. Pierce of Phila; dated 
1st mo. 1st, 1898, of Lydia Maria 
Child's Narrative. See Child, 1846). 

1899— BARBER, EDWIN ATLEE: Anglo- 
American Pottery. Old English China 
with American Views. Sq. 8vo., illus., 
l6ipp. Indianapolis. (The Richard 
Jordan china-set illustrated, etc). 

1899— COOPER, HOWARD M.: Some 
account of Camden's Rise and Growth. 
Read before the Camden Co. Histori- 
cal Society, June 13th, 1899. 12 mo., 
23PP,. Camden. 

1900— FRAZER, PERSIFOR: Life and 
Letters of Edward Drinker Cope. 
American Geologist. Vol. 26, Aug. 
No. 2, pp. 67 to 128, illus. Minne- 



apolis. (Prof. Cope resided several 
years in Haddonfield and some of his 
most notable literary work was done 
there in the '70's). 
1900— (NICHOLSON, WILLIAM HOP- 
KINS): Grandfather's stories in 
Rhyme, by W. H. N. 12 mo., 49pp., 
illus. by original cuts. (One of the 
poems, "A Fish Story", relates to 
Haddonfield, the others to his farm at 
Orston, near Haddon Heights, N. J.) 

1901— PENNYPACKER, ISAAC R.: The 
Old Tavern at Haddonfield and its 
Historic Setting. Printed for the 
Haddonfield Chap., Daughters of the 
American Revolution. 24pp., blue 
paper covers, illus. Haddonfield. 
(This tavern, since restored, is now 
called the "Indian King"). 

1901— PENNYPACKER, ISAAC R.: Gen- 
eral Meade. A Biography written in 
Haddonfield. 395pp. New York. 

1901— THE HADDON MONTHLY. Pub- 
lished at Haddonfield, N. J. Editor 
T. S. Dibble; Associate, Mrs. C. D. 
W. Stiles. Vol. I, March, No. I, 
April, No. 2; all published, 12-f-iopp 
and pr. covers. 

1902— ACTS of the 126th Sess. of the N. 
Jersey Legislature. 905pp. Trenton. 
(On pp. 400, 401, is the Act for 
purchase by the State of the Indian 
King Tavern at Haddonfield. Also 
in the Acts of the 130th session, of 
1906, a supplementary Act was passed, 
appropriating $12,000 for its restora- 
tion, but this was not made effective 
till 1908). 

1902— CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY 
Friends' Meeting House; Moores- 
town, N. J. Sq. 8vo., 58pp., illus. 
(No place, nor date of imprint). 

1902— LEE, FRANCIS B.: New Jersey as 
a Colony and as a State; one of the 
Original Thirteen. 4 vols., illus. 
N. York. 

1902— MILLS, W. JAY: Historic Houses of 
New Jersey. 348pp; illus. Phila. 

1902— MYERS, ALBERT COOK: Imm 

tion of Irish Quakers into Pennsyl- 
vania; 1682-1750 (etc). 477pp., illus. 
Swarthmore, (Printed at Lancaster, 
Pa). 



55 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 



1902- 



1902 — ; 



1902- 



1903- 



1903— 



1903— 



1904— 

1904- 

1904- 
1904- 

1905— 



MYERS, ALBERT COOK: Quaker 
Arrivals at Philadelphia, 1682-1750. 
From Certificates received at Phila. 
Monthly Meeting of Friends. 12 mo., 
131pp. Phila. 

STEVENSON, Dr. JOHN R.: Thomas 
Stevenson of London and his Des- 
cendants. 180pp., illus. Fleming- 
ton, N. J. 

■THE ELFRETH NECROLOGY. 
Publ's of the Genealogical Society of 
Penna. vol. 2, No. 2, May, pp. 172 
to 2ig. Phila. (The author of the 
Ms. was Jacob R. Elfreth, born in 
Haddonfield, N. J.) 

■HADDONFIELD LIBRARY COM- 
PANY: Papers read at the Hundredth 
Anniversary of the Founding of. 
Printed covers, 32pp., illus. Haddon- 
field. (Only 150 copies pr. by private 
subscription. Edited by James L. 
Pennypacker.) 

HAY, REV. E. F.: Notes on the 
Parish Church of St. Mary, Kelvedon, 
Essex (England), etc. Wrappers, 44 
pp., illus. Colchester. (John Es- 
taugh was baptised in this church). 
RHOADS, SAMUEL NICHOLSON: 
The Mammals of Pennsylvania and 
New Jersey. A Biographic, Historic 
and Descriptive Account of the 
Furred Animals of Land and Sea, 
both Living and Extinct, known to 
have existed in these States (etc, etc.). 
Illustrated by 9 plates and a Faunal 
Map. Roy 8vo., 266pp. Phila. pri- 
vately published by the Author. 
Printed at Lancaster, Pa. 
ACTS of the 128th. Session of the N. 
Jersey Legislature. 6i6pp. Trenton. 
(On p. 55 is the Act for Annexation 
of part of the Township of Haddon to 
the Borough of Haddonfield). 
BARBER, EDWIN ATLEE: Marks 
of American Potters. I74pp., iUus. 
(Wingenders of Haddonfield given). 
■NELSON, WILLIAM: Church rec- 
ords in New Jersey. 32pp. Paterson. 
RHOADS, CHARLES: Memorial of. 
The Testimony of Haddonfield, N. J. 
Monthly Meeting of Friends, 12 mo. 
pr. covers, 22pp. Phila. 
HARVARD CLUB of New Jersey: 
By Laws and Members. 12 mo., 
paper, 27pp., N. P., N. D. (Contains 



Poem — "The Jersey Harvard Man", 
by J. L. Pennypacker; pp. 19 to 24). 

1905?— LITTLE BOOK of Particular Meet- 
ings of Phila. Yearly Meeting of 
Friends. 16 mo., 112pp., map and 
table. Phila. 

I906~BUNTING, MORGAN: List of 
Records of Meetings constituting the 
Yearly Mtg. of Friends, 15th and Race 
Sts. Phila. 104pp., chart. Phila. 

1906— GOODWIN, MAUD WILDER: 
Dolly Madison. In "Women of Co- 
lonial Times." i2mo., 287pp., Port. 
(Haddonfield references, p. 24). 

1907— ELIZABETH HADDON: Materials 
for her Biography. (A I -page sheet, 
8vo., issued by S. N. Rhoads, re- 
questing information regarding the 
Haddon, Estaugh, Hopkins, Clarke, 
and Gill families, with a view to 
publication. Dated Nov. 1907. from 
36 Estaugh Avenue, Haddonfield. 
Printed in Hadd. by The Gazette 
Press). 

1907— RHOADS, SAMUEL NICHOLSON: 
Address read at the Dedication of the 
Elizabeth Haddon Fountain, erected 
by the W. C. T. U. of Haddonfield, 
N. J. corner of Main and Mechanic 
Sts, June 15th. Pr. in Haddon 
Gazette, July 19th, and in W. Jersey 
Press, July 20th: 2^ columns. 

1908— DEDICATION of the First Presby- 
terian Church of Haddonfield, N. J. 
with Brief History. N. P., Phila. 

1908— LITTLE AND HAINES' Haddon- 
field Directory. Pr. covers, illus., 
72pp.-f32pp. advertisements. (No 
place or printers' name. Contains a 
History of Haddonfield.) 

igo8— MEETING of the Historical Society 
of Gloucester Co. N. J. at the Old 
Tavern, Haddonfield, N. J. April 14th. 
16 mo., folder, vignette, 4pp. (Pro- 
gram listing, among other topics, 
"Elizabeth Haddon — Glimpses of her 
London Life"— By S. N. Rhoads, 
and "The Old Tavern House" by 
Dr. J. R. Stevenson.) 

1908— "OLD TAVERN HOUSE", Haddon- 
field, N. J. Letter from State Com- 
mission for its Restoration, urging 
citizens to write to Governor and 
Appropriation Committee that they 
insert a j!l2,ooo. item, in their bill 



56 



SETTLEMENT OF HADDONFIELD 



for that purpose. 4to., 2pp. folder, 
vignette. Signed J. L. Penny-packer, 
Secy. 

1908— THE LAST DAY of the Yearly 
Meeting in 1813. Bulletin Friends' 
Histor. Soc, Phila. Vol. 2, No. 2, 
pp. 83, 84. (A Poem of 18 verses of 
6 lines each, written in a vivid and 
humorous vein by a Haddonfield 
Quaker wag, whose name is not given. 
It is dated in the Ms., "Haddonfield 
4 mo. 1st., 1817"). 

1909— BARNARD, ELLA K.: Early Maltby 
with some Roades' History and that of 
the Maulsby Family in America (etc.). 
389pp., illus. Baltimore. 

1909— COOPER, HOWARD M.: Historical 
Sketch of Camden, N. J. with Introd. 
by Chas. Vandyke Joline. 74pp., 
illus. Camden. 

1909— FRENCH, HOWARD B.— Genealogy 
of the Descendants of Thomas French, 
who came to America from England 
and settled in Burlington, N. J. 
(etc., etc.). Vol. I, 4to., 500pp., 150 
illus. Privately printed. Phila. (A 
second volume will shortly appear). 

1909— HAYES, JOHN R.: Old Meeting 
Houses. With over 50 Illus. and 
several leaves of text. Sq. 8vo. 
Phila. and London. 

1909— RHOADS, SAMUEL NICHOLSON: 
Haddon Hall of Haddonfield. Bulle- 
tin of Friends' Historical Society of 
Phila., Vol. 3, No 2, pp. 58 to 72, 
illus. by 2 plates and including an 
exact copy of the Original Marriage 
Certificate of Elizabeth Haddon and 
John Estaugh. Phila. 

1910— EBERLEIN, HAROLD D: Haddon- 
field, Past and Present. American 
Suburbs, Nov., pp. 74 to 78, illus. 
Phila. 

1910— GRIFFIN, MARTIN I. J.: Gen. 
Count Casimir Pulaski; Father of the 
American Cavalry. Amer. Catholic, 
N. Sen, Vol. 6, Jan. 1910, 128pp. 
Phila. 

1910— HILLMAN, SARAH C: Historic 
Sketch of Potter Street in Haddonfield 
N. J. 24pp., printed covers, frontisp. 
Haddon Gazette Press. 

1910— STACKHOUSE, ASA M., M. D.: 
Col. Timothy Matlack, Patriot and 
soldier. Read before the Gloucester 



Co. Historical Society at the Old 
Tavern House, Haddonfield, N. J. 
April 14. Privately printed, 105pp., 
illus., pr. paper covers, vignette. 
(Moorestown). 

1910— HADDONFIELD LIBRARY COM- 
PANY; Special Meeting of. (An 
8vo. sheet, calling a Meeting for nth. 
Mo. 4th, at Friends' School House, 
to pass upon a Resolution empowering 
the Trustees to draw up an Agreement 
or Lease with the Trustees of the 
Free Public Library for the joint 
management of both Libraries in the 
same building, Signed by S. N. 
Rhoads, President; John G. Willits, 
Secretary). 

1911— BARBER, EDWIN ATLEE: Pottery 
and porcelain of the U. States. 2nd 
ed., revised, illus., 509pp. N. York. 
(Wingender's Haddonfield Pottery 
described). 

191 1— DERBYSHIRE, H. B.:, Directory of 
Haddonfield, N. J., including Bates- 
ville, for 1910-11. 68pp.4-24pp. of 
advertisements. Phila. 

1911— HADDON FORTNIGHTLY; Greet- 
ing from, to N. J. State Federation of 
Women's Clubs, Oct. 28. Oblong 
8vo. l6pp., illus. Phila. 

191 1— STONE, Witmer, The Plants of 
Southern New Jersey (etc). 828pp., 
129 Plates and Map. Issued as an 
Annual Report of the N. J. State 
Museum, Trenton. (This work is the 
best reference Botany for the Haddon- 
field region, where Mr. Stone collected 
much data for its pages). 

1912— HADDONFIELD SHADE TREE 
COMMISSION, Ordinance relating 
to. 12 mo., 9 pp., pr. covers, vignette. 
Approved July 25th. Phila. 

1912— THE ESTAUGH, First Annual Re- 
port of the Board of Managers of. 
12 mo., paper, iipp., frontisp. Haddon- 
field; R. L. Young, pr. 

1913— "HADDONFIELD". A Souvenir of 
200 years. Words by Grace F. Penny- 
packer. Music by Joseph W. Penny- 
packer. October 1913. Folio 20 num- 
bered pp. -(-title-cover. (Facsimile re- 
production by photography of Ms. 
and Score of the Original Cantata 
written for the Bicentennial Celebra- 
tion by Mrs. J. L. Pennypacker and 



57 



THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVE R SARY 



set to Music by her eldest son. Pre- 
pared for use by the Chorus and 
Musicians who rendered it before 
6000 people in the open air, Oct. i8th, 
1913)- 
1913— HADDONFIELD, NEW JERSEY: 
The two hundredth Anniversary of 
the settlement of, October l8th, 1913. 
Official Souvenir Program. Royal 
8vo. pr. paper covers, 15pp. Haddon- 
field 1713-1913. (2500 copies printed 
in Phila. by the Franklin Pr. Co. and 
compiled by James L. Penny- 
packer). 

1913— P ENNYPACKER, GRACE F. 
Words of the Cantata. Folio broad- 
sheet, ip, double column, 5 parts. 
Signed, "G. F. P. Haddonfield, Oc- 
tober i8th, 1913". (First printing 
of the Original Cantata, issued several 
days before the i8th, for public use 
and for the singers, later reprinted on 
an 8vo sheet to go with the Souvenir 
Programs). 

1913— P ENNYPACKER, GRACE F. 
and JOSEPH W. Cantata sung at 



the 200th Anniversary of the Settle- 
ment of Haddonfield, N. J., October 
18, 1913. (Words by G. F. P.; 
Music by J. W. P.). Folio, Printed 
paper covers, 19pp., cover. "Haddon- 
field. 250 copies privately printed, 
(Nov.) 1913." 

1913— THE BATTLE OF MONMOUTH: 
An Oration by Henry Armitt Brown 
with notes by A. J. Demarest. Con- 
tains Haddonfield note and picture of 
the Indian King. 12 mo., illus., 
123pp. Phila. 

I9I3_"THE HADDON FORTNIGHTLY 
YEAR BOOK" FOR 1913-1914- Club 
Rooms at the Indian King on King's 
Highway, Haddonfield, N. J. Oblong 
12 mo., unpaged: Camden, N. D. 

1913— HADDONFIELD CIVIC ASSOCIA- 
TION CALENDAR FOR 1913- Six 
leaves, narrow folio, tied with cord. 
Illustrations of Haddonfield views. 
1200 copies. Printed by Franklin 
Printing Co., Philadelphia. Com- 
piled by J. Linton Engle. 



58 



Pageant Pictures 



> 



•2. 

n 

w 



53 

o 




> 







H 
K 
W 

o 
^) 
o 

tn 

> 







a 
o 




o 
c 
> 




> 

o 
o 



o 
z 






> 

r 




n 
o 

a 
2; 

a 
o 
z 
o 



> 

P) 

o 




X 
w 

63 
> 



O 

S 

c 

n 
K 
I 

H 
ffi 
W 



g 

w 

M 

s 




f 






'. i 


m 




m 


■.■ »■ ' : .' 






1 


'^ 


■i 


^ 


1'. ■ 


-4PJ 


^t 


JT r»*-» 


w~ 


^ 


[ »"T^J 




«• . . 




h— •» 
^^^ 


'.■ 




:4i 


i 


1^,-^ 

v/*- 



K 
O 

a 

H 



;3 







M 
SO 

> 



I 



g 
z 

3 
z 




H 
ffi 
W 

•13 

sa 

M 
cn 

ta 

k; 

Pi 

> 

n 
K 
G 
pa 
n 
S 

I 

f 

> 

3 

o 

H 
ffi 
W 

n 
O 

z 

w 

73 







2 



z 

c. 



r 
C 




r 
> 




c 
c 

55 



C 

c 
z 



r 
c 




'r>^?> •>" 



o 
c 

5 
c 



r 

r 




///■/ 



> 
o 

PI 

w 

> 
n 





^^^^^^i°"**'^^^^^^i°""^^°^ 



5< 



I • 












R^ 



'on©- 






.^^K 

















LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 




fl 








! 




■ 




III ! Ill 

009 938 225 9 ^ 



